Movies like The Hammer
If you like "The Hammer" you are looking for feel good, humorous and sweet movies about / with underdog, olympics, mentor, ambition, ex athlete, contests and competitions and athlete's life themes of Comedy, Romance and Sport genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
The Hammer (2007)
6K
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Approaching forty, Ferro is unsatisfied with his life as a construction worker and part-time boxing instructor in Los Angeles, CA. After a successful bout with a young pro boxer, Ferro decides to don the gloves one last time. The movie recounts his unlikely quest for Olympic gold.
Style:
feel good, humorous, sweet, light, semi serious, realistic, witty, funny, romantic, sentimental ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
underdog, olympics, mentor, ambition, ex athlete, contests and competitions, athlete's life, friends, couples, love affair, comeback, hopes, couple relations, honest, breaking up with girlfriend, martial arts, fight, boxing, love and romance, profanity, instructor, fall in love, opponent, once promising, revenge ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
los angeles, phoenix arizona, pasadena california, usa, california, new jersey
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to The Hammer
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, feel good, humorous and semi serious films with plots about love and romance, ambition, redemption, underdog, culture clash, storytelling and brutality mostly in Comedy, Romance and Sport genres. Some movies like The Hammer: Playing for Keeps (2012), How Do You Know (2010), To the Mat (2011), Play It to the Bone (1999), Cousins (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together.
Style:
romantic, sexy, funny, inspirational, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
soccer, father son relationship, football, soccer coach, single father, relationships, parents, temptation, eligible bachelor, ex husband ex wife relationship, divorced parents, football team ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, virginia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.
Style:
romantic, light, romantic comedy, witty, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
fall in love, destiny, baseball, baseball player, love story, sarcasm, twists and turns, life philosophy, love triangle, writers, shopping, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c., new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
To the Mat tells the story of a laid-back ex-wrestler (Ricky Schroder) who's trying to keep his family's down-and-out Southern wrestling school above water. When his mother hires an uptight Wall Street consultant from New York (Laura Bell ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, light, sincere ...
Plot:
family business, small town, wrestling, couples, family relations, opposites attract, workplace, disorder, professional wrestling, counselor, fall in love, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unavailable. He wants them to box each other. They agree as long as the winner gets a shot at the ...
Style:
road movie, inspirational, melancholic, intense, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
boxing, friendship, boxer, contests and competitions, athlete's life, underdog, hopes, ambition, road trip, sex scene, love triangle, on the road ...
Time:
90s
Place:
las vegas, usa, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Two couples go to a mutual friends wedding, and end up swapping partners.
Style:
sexy, humorous, romantic, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, wedding, infidelity, love affair, extramarital affair, love story, adultery, family drama, happy ending, family relations, fall in love, love ...
Time:
20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place:
seattle, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two ice skaters develop a love-hate relationship while dreaming of Olympic glory.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, date night ...
Plot:
figure skating, olympics, ambition, friends, opposites attract, contests and competitions, teenager, power relations, love and romance, athlete's life, teaching the ways of the world, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, sweet, light, intense ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
referee, basketball, restaurant, flashback, american abroad, dysfunctional marriage, marriage proposal, marital separation, marital reconciliation, husband wife relationship, love, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, usa, new york, los angeles ...
Similarity:
100%
1K
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A slacker trust-fund type finds the motivation to pick up a job as the coach of middle school soccer team
Style:
semi serious, humorous, light, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
coach, ambition, hopes, lifestyle, direction and purpose, slacker, football, misfit, soccer, love and romance, youth, redemption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Hillary Kramer, successful Perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write off. She decides to take ...
Style:
romantic comedy, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
boxing, forbidden love, fish out of water, underdog, screwball, love, teenager, disco, martial arts, opposites attract, financial ruin, driving instructor ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 1930s
Place:
latin america, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Robert picked the wrong time to meet his soul mate! After being fired from his own father's company, he feels like his luck has run out - until Morgan enters into his life.
Style:
humorous, feel good, touching, erotic, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love triangle, fall in love, black, couple relations, couples, unemployment, friendship, family relations, black american, african american, amor, black romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When the champ's promoter, Rev. Sultan, decides something new is needed to boost the marketability of the boxing matches, he searches and finds the only man to ever beat the champ. The problem is that he isn't a boxer anymore and he's ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, stylized, inspirational, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
boxing, boxer, satire, lone hero, justice, adaptation, rivalry, investigation, contests and competitions, athlete's life, cons and scams, power relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, cleveland ohio, las vegas, california
Similarity:
100%
56K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A washed up golf pro working at a driving range tries to qualify for the US Open in order to win the heart of his succesful rival's girlfriend.
Style:
sexy, entertaining, light, sweet, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
golf, underdog, love, psychologist, happy ending, desert, competition, rivalry, redemption, multiple storylines, love and romance, suburbs ...
Time:
20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place:
texas, usa, north carolina, austin texas, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Twenty years ago, Arlen Faber (Jeff Daniels) wrote a book about spirituality that became wildly popular. These days, he's a curmudgeonly recluse who only enjoys the company of his chiropractor, Elizabeth (Lauren Graham). As Elizabeth's ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, hopes, writers, dishonesty, single parent, human nature, love and romance, self discovery, couple relations, writer's life, family relations, couples ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
100%
16K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Aging baseball star who goes by the nickname, Mr. 3000, finds out many years after retirement that he didn't quite reach 3,000 hits. Now at age 47 he's back to try and reach that goal.
Style:
inspirational, humorous, stylized, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
baseball, redemption, underdog, hopes, friendship, ambition, athlete's life, rivalry, contests and competitions, journalism, major league, racing ...
Time:
year 2004, 90s, 2000s
Place:
milwaukee wisconsin, wisconsin, new jersey, california, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
327
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Wendy, Veda, and J.C. are part of Southern California's thriving figure skating community - the bottom part. Luckily this is America, the land of opportunity, where a dream in your heart and personal gain in your sights can propel almost anyone ...
Style:
not serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, mockumentary
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
satire, ambition, rise to the top, friendship, lifestyle, athlete's life, uninhibited rivalry, love and romance, rivalry, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, skating, silly humor ...
Place:
california, usa
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, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch. English teacher Paul Ashworth believes his long standing obsession with Arsenal serves him well. But then he ...
Style:
touching, sweet, feel good, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
soccer, teacher, fan, soccer fan, sport team, contests and competitions, couple relations, relationship problems, ambition, opposites attract, couples, fall in love ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1997, 70s
Place:
england, london, europe, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
809
Genre: Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a fiercely competitive 30 year old rower fails to make the Olympic boat for the second time, she takes a coaching job at a school but struggles to adjust to life off the race course.
Style:
romantic, realistic, touching, captivating, inspirational ...
Plot:
contests and competitions, starting over, youth, rivalry, fall in love, high school, athlete and trainer, ambition, lifestyle, athlete's life, ex athlete, coach ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, philadelphia
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, "Nuke" Laloosh. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start and is further complicated when baseball groupie Annie ...
Style:
sexy, inspirational, cult classic, funny, rom com ...
Plot:
baseball, small town, love triangle, relationships, mentor, baseball coach, age difference, baseball player, manic pixie dream girl, sexual content, nudity, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1988, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
usa, north carolina, california
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, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout -- 30 years after their last match.
Style:
emotional, inspirational, intense, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
boxing, rivalry, aging, contests and competitions, elderly, honest, mentor, fight scenes, justice, athlete's life, uninhibited rivalry, comeback ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, north america, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the head ...
Style:
stylized, semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
baseball, softball, mentor, coming of age, human spirit, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, ambition, against the odds, hopes, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2005, 20th century, 70s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Story revolves around a young boxer, Izzy Daniels, who trains to follow in his father's footsteps by winning the Golden Glove. When his friend, Mary, however, asks him to substitute for a team member in a Double Dutch tournament, the young man ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, teen
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
human spirit, friendship, follow your dream, athlete's life, against the odds, lifestyle, ambition, teenage life, teenager, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding ...
Style:
sentimental, rom com, humorous, emotional, independent film ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
couples, friendship, divorce, love story, happy ending, breakup, passion, dysfunctional family, honest, best friend, love, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, san francisco, california, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When relaxed and charming Ben Wrightman meets workaholic Lindsey Meeks she finds him sweet and charming, they hit it off and when it is winter Ben can spend every waking hour with Lindsey, but when summer comes around the corner Lindsey discovers ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, entertaining, sweet, cute ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, teacher, obsession, happy ending, contests and competitions, relationship problems, women, baseball coach, dating, career woman, workaholic, fall in love ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2003, 2000s, 80s, year 1980 ...
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Five years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win her back.
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, intense, not serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
loser, love triangle, running, sarcasm, underdog, wedding, marathon, coach, bet, rivalry, runner, farce ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
london, europe, tower bridge london, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Meet Chloe and Owen: best buds since their sandbox days. Now, in med school as they attempt to balance the weight of their studies, his job, her band, their parents, their friends (their sanity), they find little time for relationships...but lots of ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, semi serious, witty, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
teacher student sex, couple relations, friendship, friends, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, fall in love, medical school, singleness, sexual relations, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Local boy Ryan Dunne (Freddie Prinze Jr.), now a pitcher for Boston College, meets Tenley Parrish (Jessica Biel), the daughter of a wealthy couple who summer ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, sentimental, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
small town, woman in a bikini, youth, young lovers, athlete's life, fall in love, skinny dipping, rivalry, baseball, social differences, lifestyle, ambition ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, 80s, 21st century
Place:
columbus ohio, usa, massachusetts, new england, san francisco ...
Similarity:
100%
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, beach, contests and competitions, youth, friends, self discovery, rivalry, summer, volleyball, teenager, law student, college ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, southern california, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Vivica A. Fox sizzles as a woman scorned who plans to get her man back by any means necessary. In this comedy about players and those who "get played." As corporate overachiever and all-around fly chick Shanté Smith, Fox thinks she's ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, satirical, humorous, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
battle of the sexes, black romance, dating, black, mentor, looking for love, cheating, buddies, contests and competitions, couple relations, lifestyle, guru ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
usa, san francisco, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Related movie lists
