Movies like Green Flash

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Green Flash (2008)
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Green Flash (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: At the ripe old age of 30, Cameron Day has given up his chances at pro-basketball fame and settled into an aimless life. A chance encounter with a beautiful woman lands him smack in the middle of Southern California's pro beach volleyball scene. A naturally talented true athlete, he seems destined for sports stardom once again until his old demons start creeping in, threatening his chances at success.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, inspirational
Plot: teenage love, self discovery, beach volleyball, rivalry, ambition, youth, prodigy, sport team, contests and competitions, ego clash, athlete's life, college, beach, underdog, motivation, inspiration, athlete and trainer, high school life, high school, curses spells and rituals, power relations, volleyball, basketball player, athlete
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, usa, california, southern california
Keyword: sport

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and semi serious films with plots about rivalry, ambition, athlete's life, underdog, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions and power relations mostly in Drama, Sport and Comedy genres. Some movies like Green Flash: Street Dreams (2009), A Season on the Brink (2002), One Hit from Home (2012), Cloud 9 (2006), Side Out (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Street Dreams (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Derrick Cabrera, like all skateboarders, dreams of being sponsored one day. He has all the talent in the world to make it happen but some major roadblocks to overcome before he can make the dream a reality.
Style: exciting, captivating, disturbing, sincere, rough ...
Plot: skateboard, lifestyle, rivalry, athlete's life, ambition, athlete and trainer, misfit, rise to the top, obsession, social misfits, teenage life, skater ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Season on the Brink (2002)
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, rivalry, athlete's life, sport team, lifestyle, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, underdog, hopes, athlete, power relations, college ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
One Hit from Home (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Story: After suffering a career ending knee injury, pro-baseball superstar Jimmy Easton (Dave Stone) returns to a place he has not been in a very long time....home. Here, Jimmy confronts dark memories from a tragic past as he tries to make peace with a ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, captivating, christian film, uplifting
Audience: family friendly
Plot: baseball, college, ambition, follow your dream, rivalry, contests and competitions, youth, hopes, athlete's life, haunted by the past, sport team, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
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 5.5
 2K
Side Out (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball.
Style: semi serious, humorous, entertaining, inspirational, funny ...
Plot: underdog, contests and competitions, ambition, youth, volleyball, friends, self discovery, rivalry, summer, teenager, college, beach ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Believe in Me (2006)
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, spiritual, inspirational
Audience: family outing
Plot: basketball, small town, underdog, ambition, contests and competitions, youth, prodigy, hopes, rivalry, against the odds, human spirit, dedicated educator ...
Time: 60s, year 2006
Place: oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Junction Boys (2002)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Tom Berenger leads an outstanding cast in this bone-crunching dramatization of legendary college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's debut at Texas A&M in the summer of 1954. The often unnerving story finds Bryant ducking the ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, sincere, captivating
Plot: american football, against the odds, hopes, teachers and students, discrimination, contests and competitions, college, university, athlete and trainer, human spirit, college life, hardcase students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, alabama, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 2.6
 8K
The Minis (2007)
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 and trainer, hopes, follow your dream, ambition, rivalry, hotshot hero, contests and competitions, lifestyle, athlete's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend (1991)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A story about the great basketball player "Pistol" Pete Maravich when he was in the eighth grade. He plays on the varsity basketball team at Daniel High School but has some very difficult obstacles standing in his way of playing. The only ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot: basketball, youth, faith, biopic, teenage love, high school, college, against the odds, teaching the ways of the world, power relations, sport team, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.3
 15K
Blue Chips (1994)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team aren't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete ...
Style: intense, suspense, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot: basketball, underdog, college, sport team, contests and competitions, blind ambition, lifestyle, follow your dream, prodigy, athlete and trainer, self discovery, athlete's life ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: chicago, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Prize Fighter (2003)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a life of hard knocks and wrong turns, boxer Ed Jones gets a second chance at fulfilling his life long dream of a World Boxing Championship. With the help of veteran promoter, Arliss King and the guidance of a former champ, Ed embarks on the ...
Style: realistic, captivating, exciting, psychological, inspirational ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxing, athlete and trainer, hopes, athlete's life, rivalry, ambition, boxer, championship, contests and competitions, self destructing, death of wife, redemption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Sports Pages (2001)
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, contests and competitions, nothing goes right, hopes, athlete and trainer, farce, buddies, odd couple, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.2
 29
Matchups (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ian Willams -- who was born blind in one eye -- grew up undaunted to become an elite college basketball player. But his dream of winning a national championship and turning pro was sidetracked when a tragic accident left him completely blind. ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, independent film
Plot: blindness, prodigy, against the odds, disability, human spirit, dedicated educator, ambition, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, society, rivalry, youth ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 3.4
 574
Bad Parents (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A suburban mom relives her season with the soccer obsessed sports parents whose outrageous "win at all costs" behavior spirals out of control.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: soccer, family relations, eccentric family, obsession, parents and children, rivalry, sport team, youth, satire, athlete and trainer, ambition, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Final Season (2007)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: True story of Kent Stock, who in the early 90's, gives up a job and ditches his wedding plans to take over as head coach as the Norway High School baseball team. Kent must win over his players and convince them and himself that he can fill ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, sentimental, historical drama ...
Audience: kids
Plot: baseball, coach, sport team, small town, ambition, against the odds, rivalry, human spirit, athlete's life, youth, contests and competitions, hopes ...
Time: year 2007, 90s
Place: iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.7
 646
Coach (1978)
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, love, school, female athlete, sexism, partner, social relations, sport team, power relations, dedicated educator, prodigy, society ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.1
 11K
Forever Strong (2008)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Rick Penning lives life just like he plays rugby; fast, hard-hitting and intense. When life on the edge lands him in jail, prison ward Marcus Tate offers him a chance to get back in the game by playing for his rival, Highland Rugby. Reluctantly Rick ...
Style: realistic, serious, inspirational, motivational, disturbing ...
Audience: manly, family outing
Plot: rugby, coach, dedicated educator, juvenile delinquency, athlete and trainer, father son relationship, human spirit, redemption, ambition, starting over, teenage life, motivation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Crooked Arrows (2012)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A native-American lacrosse team makes its way through a prep school league tournament.
Style: uplifting, exciting, feel good, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: native american, lacrosse, high school, hopes, ambition, contests and competitions, human spirit, rivalry, social relations, against the odds, native, preparatory school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: massachusetts, boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Movie in collections
 6.5
 2K
One on One (1977)
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: serious, realistic, touching, melancholic, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, college, coach, young lovers, follow your dream, ambition, youth, contests and competitions, coming of age, athlete and trainer, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.1
 903
Price of Glory (2000)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: An ex-boxer, living with the knowledge that his fight career was cut short by a crooked manager, channels his bitter disappointment in a single-minded quest for boxing championships for his three sons. We see them in pee-wee Silver Glove matches ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, tense
Plot: boxing, athlete's life, ambition, lifestyle, human spirit, follow your dream, ego clash, tough heroes, athlete and trainer, obsession, rivalry, contests and competitions ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.0
 176
Out of It (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An introverted nerd and a dumb, violent jock vie for the attentions of a cheerleader.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: rivalry, coming of age, school, beach, cheerleader, high school football, performer's life, partner, sport team, friends, power relations, social relations ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.8
 1K
Underdogs (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set in rural Ohio, the birthplace of football, UNDERDOGS is the story of a small-town high school football team destined to play their cross-town rival, a perennial powerhouse, while standing up for an entire community.
Style: feel good, realistic, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, teens
Plot: american football, cheerleader, high school football, high school, underdog, sport team, ambition, human spirit, athlete and trainer, rivalry, youth, follow your dream ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.6
 383
Streetballers (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Defining street basketball as America's new favorite pastime, it is a story driven by passion, faith, and achieving goals. A story capturing the poetic nature of street basketball, highlighting the struggles endured on and off the court by the ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: basketball, ambition, lifestyle, family problems, youth, contests and competitions, life is a bitch, society, athlete's life, hopes, rivalry, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Movie in collections
 6.3
 480
Bleacher Bums (2001)
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: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: baseball, friends, gambling, lifestyle, against the odds, follow your dream, rivalry, buddies, athlete's life, couple relations, ambition, hopes ...
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Talent for the Game (1991)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Major League Baseball scout must find promising young player to save his job and his team.
Style: realistic, serious, feel good, independent film
Plot: baseball, career, obsessive quest, underdog, follow your dream, lifestyle, athlete and trainer, redemption, ambition, prodigy, society, rivalry ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: washington state, idaho, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Home of the Giants (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A story about basketball and befriending. Gar is a High School journalist who, while covering the team to the state championship, is best friends with the teams' main "Star" Matt Dunbar. Matt's older brother persuades him to ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, basketball, cheerleader, friendship, athlete's life, teenage life, ambition, love and romance, lifestyle, rivalry, danger, gang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.1
 1K
Chalk (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Life in the trenches of that most honorable and frustrating profession...teaching. It's the start of a memorable new year at Harrison High. The self-conscious Mr. Stroope is convinced that his time has come - this year he will be furnished with ...
Style: mockumentary, humorous, semi documentary, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: teacher, high school, teachers and students, ambition, power relations, youth, hardcase students, lifestyle, education, rivalry, teaching, college ...
Time: year 2006
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Monday Night Mayhem (2002)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a major showcase. Executive Roone Arledge (John Heard) recruits former Dallas Cowboys quarterback ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: american football, ambition, rise to the top, hopes, celebrity culture, rivalry, introspection, athlete's life, showbiz, contests and competitions, television, gambling ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Full-Court Miracle (2003)
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: basketball, miraculous event, college, athlete's life, human spirit, ambition, against the odds, sport team, rivalry, follow your dream, underdog, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Hometown Legend (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A teenage drifter finds an opportunity to turn his life around when he joins a high-school football program with a hard-nosed coach.
Style: realistic, serious, feel good, touching, independent film ...
Plot: american football, high school, small town, human spirit, leadership, athlete's life, teenage life, against the odds, ambition, society, rivalry, youth ...
Place: alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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