Movies like Fast Break
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Fast Break (1979)
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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, sport, youth, misfit, athlete and trainer, fugitives, stoners, rivalry, society, ambition, sport team, contests and competitions, lifestyle, clergy, disorder, underdog, fish out of water, college life, against the odds, hopes ...
Time:
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 ambition, sport, underdog, rivalry, contests and competitions, sport team and hopes mostly in Sport, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like Fast Break: The Minis (2007), Coach (1978), Like Mike 2: Streetball (2006), The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979), Slam Dunk Ernest (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Dwarfs playing basketball... with Dennis Rodman.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic
Plot:
friends, sport team, hotshot hero, sport, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, rivalry, contests and competitions, hopes, ambition, athlete's life, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
california, venice beach california
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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:
sex comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, teen sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, love, sexism, female athlete, social relations, sport team, power relations, hopes, ambition, rivalry, ego clash, contests and competitions ...
Time:
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48%
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, semi serious
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
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basketball, true love, friendship, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, hopes, underdog, follow your dream, buddies, ambition, human spirit, sport ...
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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:
realistic, not serious, feel good, humorous, offbeat
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, sport, astrology, blaxploitation, disco, sport team, partners, hopes, underdog, ambition, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Time:
70s
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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:
not serious, humorous, feel good
Audience:
pre-teens, teens, date night, family outing
Plot:
basketball, sport, satire, humour, shopping mall, friends, disorder, power relations, sport team, ambition, goofy hero, hopes ...
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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, college, coach, young lovers, ambition, follow your dream, sport, youth, coming of age, athlete and trainer, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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:
sport, ambition, follow your dream, rivalry, sport team, contests and competitions, buddies, society, hopes, fish out of water, culture clash, underdog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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:
ice hockey, sport team, social relations, orphan, underdog, lifestyle, athlete and trainer, sport, rivalry, hopes, against the odds, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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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:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot:
american football, writers, sport, football, sport team, power relations, human spirit, lifestyle, ambition, journalism, partners, follow your dream ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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:
sincere, humorous, inspirational, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
basketball, sport, coach, high school, contests and competitions, ex athlete, misfit, youth, sport team, teenage life, hopes, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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221
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:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, teenage life, against the odds, follow your dream, human spirit, ambition, friendship, rivalry, athlete's life, lifestyle, parents and children, athlete and trainer ...
Place:
usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental
Plot:
jewish, against the odds, culture clash, rabbi, sport team, rivalry, athlete and trainer, society, contests and competitions, sport, ambition, religions or cults ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york yankees
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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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:
feel good, light, inspirational, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
basketball, sport, female protagonist, basketball coach, life philosophy, follow your dream, hopes, rivalry, ambition, friendship, against the odds, lifestyle ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
baseball, sport, blaxploitation, gangsters, athlete and trainer, ambition, human spirit, lifestyle, rivalry, underdog, follow your dream, athlete's life ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
With the original Hanson Brothers still on the same minor league ice hockey team, the Chiefs are sold to a new owner who gives them a female coach and puts them in a league in which they are to be regularly humiliated by an opposing Harlem ...
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sex comedy, exciting, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ice hockey, sport, rivalry, ice skater, sport team, against the odds, siblings relations, ambition, betrayal, athlete and trainer, uninhibited rivalry, contests and competitions ...
Time:
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Place:
nebraska, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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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, human spirit, journalism, lifestyle, ambition, sport, odd couple, hopes, contests and competitions, buddies, athlete and trainer, nothing goes right ...
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37%
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:
basketball, sport, breast cancer, rivalry, contests and competitions, friendship, against the odds, cheerleader, strong female presence, sport team, ambition, underdog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austin texas, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleader, cheerleading, teenage love, interracial couple, high school, contests and competitions, youth, lifestyle, siblings relations, high school hunk, love and romance, sport team ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, malibu california, florida, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
In a conservative small town, a young man's wish to coach high school basketball are tweaked by a school board decision that makes him the new coach of the girls' team.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, inspirational
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
basketball, sport, small town, hopes, ambition, prodigy, rivalry, underdog, contests and competitions, youth, against the odds, sport team ...
Time:
60s
Place:
oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A warm-hearted comedy about a compulsive soccer mom who masquerades as a famous Italian soccer star hired to coach her daughter's floundering soccer team, then struggles frantically to keep her wacky charade going long enough to see the girls ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
soccer, sport, rivalry, family life, sport team, hidden identity, contests and competitions, underdog, disorder, ambition, hopes, parents and children ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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:
feel good, entertaining, touching, funny, melancholic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
basketball, sport, sport team, college, youth, underdog, redemption, follow your dream, human spirit, lifestyle, against the odds, prodigy ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disorder, athlete's life, buddies, ambition, contests and competitions, friendship, against the odds, lifestyle, partners, misfit, money raising, power relations ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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:
feel good, humorous, entertaining, inspirational, light ...
Audience:
teens, kids, manly, boys' night
Plot:
american football, underdog, sport, sport team, college, football team, happy ending, transformation, football, against the odds, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
texas, usa, new jersey, austin texas, ireland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 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:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
miraculous event, college, human spirit, athlete's life, ambition, against the odds, disney, sport team, rivalry, athlete and trainer, underdog, contests and competitions ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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:
athlete's life, rivalry, ambition, sport team, contests and competitions, sport, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, underdog, hopes, basketball, vulgarity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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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:
humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleading, cheerleader, competition, teenager, dancing, high school, sport, college, hip hop, athlete's life, ambition, against the odds ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, feel good, talky ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, friends, gambling, follow your dream, against the odds, lifestyle, rivalry, buddies, couple relations, sport, athlete's life, ambition ...
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
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34%
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:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, uplifting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
swimming, high school, athlete's life, against the odds, ambition, follow your dream, human spirit, lifestyle, teenage life, sport, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
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34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Comic melodrama following the day-to-day life of high school senior Will, a promising but naive athlete struggling with choices that could determine his future, romance and family difficulties.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, baseball, coming of age, graduation, teen angst, performer's life, friends, couples, sport team, power relations, athlete's life, moral dilemma ...
Time:
70s
Place:
georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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:
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Time:
90s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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