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Fast Break (1979)
961
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. Preacher, who's being sought by some nefarious characters. And D.C., who's a fugitive. And along with some of the students at the college, he turns them into a contender. In order to give the tam the respect they deserve and some exposure, Greene schemes to try and get the number 1 team led by Bo Winnegar, to play them.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, teenager, transsexual, student athlete, college, culture clash, youth, misfit, athlete and trainer, stoner, fugitives, rivalry, society, ambition, sport team, contests and competitions, lifestyle, clergy, disorder, underdog, fish out of water, college life, against the odds, hopes, athlete's life ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
nevada, new york, usa
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Most similar movies to Fast Break
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about sport team, ambition, underdog, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, rivalry and power relations mostly in Sport, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like Fast Break: Coach (1978), The Yankles (2009), Boys Club (2001), Eddie (1996), The Minis (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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%
Genre: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
About Charlie Jones, a washed up, ex major league ballplayer, and how he gets a second chance at life and love by managing a Jewish, orthodox yeshiva baseball team.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, independent film ...
Plot:
against the odds, culture clash, rabbi, sport team, rivalry, society, ambition, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, religions or cults, hopes, baseball ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
256
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:
cheerleader, teenage life, friendship, against the odds, human spirit, ambition, follow your dream, parents and children, rivalry, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, athlete's life ...
Place:
usa, san francisco
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100%
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, lifestyle, youth, high school, sport team, love and romance, teenage life, rivalry, high school hunk ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, malibu california, florida, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
12K
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, "Wild Bill" Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations ...
Style:
light, inspirational, entertaining, feel good, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
basketball, female protagonist, basketball coach, fish out of water, limousine driver, life philosophy, follow your dream, hopes, rivalry, ambition, friendship, against the odds ...
Time:
year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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's life, hotshot hero, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, contests and competitions, hopes, rivalry, follow your dream, underdog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, venice beach california
Similarity:
100%
14K
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, black comedy ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
basketball, college, sport team, youth, follow your dream, underdog, lifestyle, against the odds, ambition, prodigy, teenage life, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
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:
true love, basketball, hopes, young lovers, friendship, follow your dream, underdog, rivalry, athlete's life, contests and competitions, buddies, ambition ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ernest P. Worrell becomes a basketball star after an angel bearing an uncanny resemblance to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gives him a pair of magic sneakers.
Style:
humorous, feel good, not serious
Audience:
pre-teens, teens, family outing, date night
Plot:
basketball, satire, weirdo, humour, partner, follow your dream, nothing goes right, human spirit, contests and competitions, misfit, rivalry, athlete's life ...
Time:
90s
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%
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:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Plot:
ambition, follow your dream, rivalry, buddies, contests and competitions, society, hopes, sport team, culture clash, fish out of water, underdog, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, bombay india
Similarity:
100%
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, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleading, cheerleader, competition, dancing, teenager, high school, sport team, teenage girl, college, campus, hip hop, dance ...
Time:
2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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: 102 min.
Story:
The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.
Style:
independent film, realistic, not serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, astrology, blaxploitation, black history, black people, black, disco, partner, sport team, misfit, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In this third film version of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promotor/hustler who takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a ...
Style:
humorous, family comedy, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
baseball, childhood, youth, culture clash, baseball coach, sport team, coach, power relations, friends, misfit, lifestyle, rivalry ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, 20th century, future
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Henry Steele is a basketball phenom at his small town high school, but when he matriculates to a big city university on a scholarship, soon realizes that he has few skills outside the sport. Expected by his coach to contribute significantly to the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, coach, follow your dream, young lovers, youth, ambition, athlete and trainer, coming of age, rivalry, contests and competitions, university, high school ...
Time:
70s
Place:
colorado, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A white school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined black high school basketball team and turns them into a winning team.
Style:
hood, humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, high school, hip hop, underdog, high school sports, urban, black, african american, teacher, ghetto, discrimination, education ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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 ...
Style:
parody, spoof, humorous, funny, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
football, baseball, american football, dumb, satire, coach, rivalry, college, social relations, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, against the odds ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 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, captivating, light ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
basketball, high school, contests and competitions, ex athlete, misfit, youth, sport team, teenage life, hopes, ambition, friends, teenager ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
indiana, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the ...
Style:
black comedy, funny, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot:
basketball, culture clash, fish out of water, american abroad, wager, basketball coach, student athlete, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, ritual, language barrier, nun ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place:
africa, kenya
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school champs, challenge the current high school girls’ state champs to raise money for breast cancer prevention. Sparks fly as the women go to comic extremes to ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, captivating, funny ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
cheerleader, breast cancer, rivalry, basketball, contests and competitions, against the odds, friendship, strong female presence, sport team, underdog, ambition, menopause ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austin texas, usa, texas
Similarity:
100%
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%
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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:
black comedy, road movie, sentimental, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
baseball, blaxploitation, baseball coach, baseball player, black, urban, african, sport team, power relations, racism, on the road, interracial relations ...
Time:
1930s, year 1976
Place:
africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Get ready for a rough-and-tumble comedy that knows how to kick some serious puck!
Style:
realistic, exciting, feel good, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hockey, ice hockey, profanity, sport team, social relations, rivalry, athlete and trainer, hopes, orphan, underdog, lifestyle, against the odds ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south carolina, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Sentimental sequel film finds the Bears, somehow, the little league champions of California. As a result, the team is invited to play a between-games exhibition at the Houston Astrodome with the local champs, the Toros. Kelly Leak, the Bears' ...
Style:
family comedy, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
baseball, childhood, high school, youth, underdog, redemption, baseball coach, sport team, family relations, estrangement, friends, high school life ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
texas, houston texas, austin texas, tokyo, japan ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dr. Lionel Waddems (Bob Newhart), a golf fanatic. is put on trial for killing his golf partner (Played by Kelsey Grammer). The movie follows the trial in the news and features interviews by people who knew the men. It is based on 2 short stories ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
athlete's life, journalism, lifestyle, human spirit, farce, rivalry, nothing goes right, hopes, buddies, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, odd couple ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Full-Court Miracle is a 2003 Disney Channel Original Movie. It premiered on November 23, 2003. Inspired by the true story of University of Virginia basketball star Lamont Carr, the film centers on a group of young Jewish basketball players who ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
basketball, athlete's life, against the odds, sport team, contests and competitions, underdog, follow your dream, rivalry, athlete and trainer, fish out of water, win over, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
"A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers" is based on the best-selling book by John Feinstein. The movie chronicles Indiana's 1985-86 season, when Knight granted Feinstein unprecedented access to the ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
basketball, athlete's life, rivalry, sport team, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, underdog, hopes, athlete, basketball coach, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana
Similarity:
100%
89K
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, entertaining, stylized, humorous, hilarious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
basketball, championship, cheerleader, hopes, satire, basketball team, sport team, mentor, competition, adaptation, justice, athlete's life ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
michigan, usa
Similarity:
100%
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