Movies like Johnny Be Good

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Johnny Be Good (1988)
 4.6
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Johnny Be Good (1988)
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 with his girlfriend and give up his football career?
Style: independent film, teen sex comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, sexy, unusual plot structure, suspense, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: american football, football, brat pack, cheerleader, college, high school, coming of age, underdog, teenager, revenge, love, student athlete, teen angst, sport team, foot fetish, high school football, teenage love, youth, friends, teachers and students, love and romance, athlete and trainer, couples, high school life, teenage life ...
Time: 80s, future
Place: texas, los angeles, alabama, california
Keyword: football movie, arabic, sport, partners, short shorts

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, youth, sport team, underdog and lifestyle mostly in Comedy, Sport and Drama genres. Some movies like Johnny Be Good: Wildcats (1986), Bring It On: All or Nothing (2006), Bring It On: In It to Win It (2007), Fast Break (1979), Varsity Blues (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bring It On: Fight to the Finish (2009)
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, high school, youth, lifestyle, high school hunk, sport team, love and romance, teenage life, rivalry ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, malibu california, florida, los angeles
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 6.0
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Wildcats (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite snickers from fellow staff members and her former husband.
Style: feel good, entertaining, inspirational, light, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: american football, football, coach, high school football, high school, rivalry, sport team, ambition, athlete and trainer, mother daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, custody battle ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bring It On: All or Nothing (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A transfer student at a rough high school tries joining the cheer-leading squad and finds that she not only has to face off against the head cheerleader, but also against her former school in preparation for a cheer-off competition.
Style: teen, light, entertaining, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, cheerleader, cheerleading, dancing, high school life, hip hop, school, friendship, dance, teenage girl, sport team, teenager ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bring It On: In It to Win It (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fourth 'Bring It On' movie is set at a cheerleader camp in Florida with a 'West Side Story' musical feel has the female captain of the West Side Sharks meeting and romancing a male member of the East Coast Jets amid their ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, teen ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: cheerleader, cheerleading, hottie, dancing, college, dance, teenager, rivalry, athlete and trainer, underdog, contests and competitions, teenage life ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Fast Break (1979)
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. ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, student athlete, transsexual, teenager, culture clash, college, stoner, sport team, disorder, power relations, youth, ambition ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: nevada, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 49K
Varsity Blues (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion, 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night. When star quarterback Lance Harbor suffers an injury, the Coyotes are forced to regroup ...
Style: teen sex comedy, entertaining, inspirational, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: football, american football, coming of age, small town, cheerleader, teenager, high school, stripper, mentor, stereotypes, rivalry, ambition ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 10K
Ladybugs (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: To climb the corporate ladder to success, a guy agrees to coach the company's all girl soccer team with the help of his secret weapon: his fiancee's son.
Style: humorous, feel good, sentimental, uplifting, offbeat ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: cross dressing, soccer, football, teenager, childhood, youth, farce, milf, women's football (soccer), american football, bike, underdog ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Necessary Roughness (1991)
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, inspirational, light, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, manly, kids, boys' night
Plot: american football, underdog, football team, sport team, college, football, happy ending, transformation, human spirit, rivalry, hopes, against the odds ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: texas, usa, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Division III: Football's Finest (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This ensemble comedy follows the Pullham University Bluecocks, a small liberal arts college with a Division III football program (the lowest division in the NCAA). When the head coach unexpectedly dies, the future of the flailing football program is ...
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: american football, cheerleader, football, fight, sport team, power relations, contests and competitions, social relations, athlete and trainer, against the odds, championship, sportscaster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Best of Times (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.
Style: laugh out loud, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: american football, football, high school sports, football team, high school football, sport team, small town, partner, power relations, social relations, friends, haunted by the past ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 4.7
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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 ⇓
32%
 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 ⇓
32%
 2.2
 5K
Surf School (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A rag-tag bunch of seniors, complete outsiders at their surf-crazed Laguna Beach High School, decide to crash the biggest team surf contest. In order to prevail, however, they must do one important thing...learn to surf! We're taking your ...
Style: witty, humorous, realistic, semi serious, teen sex comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: surfing, high school, ambition, friendship, lifestyle, teenage life, teenage love, youth, rivalry, buddies, contests and competitions, love affair ...
Time: 2000s
Place: costa rica, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With Blue Mountain State football star Thad Castle recently signing a multi-million dollar NFL contract, his teammates and college life seem like a distant memory. However, when a new school dean threatens to clean up the BMS image by auctioning off ...
Style: sex comedy, funny, feel good, not serious, humorous ...
Plot: american football, college, party, male pubic hair, sport team, youth, athlete's life, disorder, ambition, abuse, university, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.2
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Paper Lion (1968)
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, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot: american football, writers, football, sport team, power relations, underdog, hopes, human spirit, ego clash, ambition, lifestyle, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 60s
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Goodbye, Franklin High (1978)
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: grindhouse, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: baseball, high school, coming of age, college, teen angst, graduation, partner, performer's life, friends, sport team, couples, power relations ...
Time: 70s
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Her Best Move (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: 15 year-old soccer prodigy, Sara Davis, has a chance to join the U.S. National Team, but she must juggle high school, romance, sports, and parental pressure while deciding her own priorities.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenager, soccer, rivalry, against the odds, teenage love, friends, follow your dream, youth, friendship, parents and children, high school life, teenage life ...
Time: 2000s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Heartbreak High (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two long-time rival high school football coaches lead their respective teams into battle for the city football championship. However, before the opening kickoff, various students from each school try to do whatever it takes to throw the opposing ...
Style: independent film, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cheerleader, american football, high school football, soccer coach, prank, rivalry, silly humor, sexual content, high school life, athlete and trainer, buddies, contests and competitions ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Movie in collections
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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 ⇓
28%
 5.5
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The Big Green (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a depressed Texas town, British foreign exchange teacher Anna attempts to inject some life into her hopeless kids by introducing them to soccer. They're terrible at first, but Anna and her football-hero assistant whip them into shape. As ...
Style: inspirational, melancholic, light, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, teen drama
Plot: soccer, school, underdog, childhood, youth, athlete and trainer, football, high school life, against the odds, small town life, teachers and students, follow your dream ...
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Revenge of the Cheerleaders (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: There's shakin', quakin' and plenty of booty to be enjoyed when the perky gals from Aloha High School shimmy their groove things in this red-hot sequel to The Cheerleaders. Rainbeaux Smith (from the first film) is back ... and ...
Style: teen sex comedy, sexy, sensual, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: cheerleading, cheerleader, erotica, high school, female pubic hair, nudity, female nudity, teenager, public nudity, nude, exploitation, nurse ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.1
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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 ⇓
27%
Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An overenthusiastic high-school maintenance man attempts to lead an unlikely group of misfits to the Nebraska state tennis championship in Balls Out: The Gary Houseman Story? director Danny Leiner's underdog sports comedy. American Pie star ...
Style: funny, humorous, sexy, satirical, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: tennis, male nudity, teacher, mentor, stereotypes, athlete and trainer, ambition, rivalry, misfit, youth, lifestyle, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Waterboys (2001)
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: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: swimming, high school, athlete's life, against the odds, follow your dream, human spirit, lifestyle, ambition, teenage life, rivalry, youth, athlete and trainer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Replacements (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty ...
Style: feel good, humorous, inspirational, intense, realistic ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: american football, underdog, football, cheerleading, transformation, adaptation, hopes, rivalry, contests and competitions, against the odds, athlete and trainer, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, y2k, 80s, 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.7
 9K
Dirty Deeds (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An American Pie-like teen comedy in which a high school senior tries to become the first student in years to complete the Dirty Deeds, an outrageous series of challenges that must be completed by the Homecoming banquet at 9 a.m.
Style: sexy, sex comedy, teen sex comedy, romantic, funny ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: high school, teenager, bully, cheerleader, stereotypes, friends, rivalry, college, teenage sex, lifestyle, coming of age, prank ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The nerds are now in control of the university, as a result of Lewis Skolnick and the rest's actions in the two previous movies. A new generation of sportsmen arrive, however, determined on winning the school back. The principle, himself an ...
Style: sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, teen comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sex, nerd, love, school, farce, cheerleader, power relations, friends, disorder, social relations, campaign, vengeance ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.9
 3K
Semi-Tough (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.
Style: humorous, satirical, realistic, semi serious, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: american football, satire, football player, love triangle, book, football, teenager, tough guy, football team, wedding, friendship, sport team ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.5
 560
1st & Ten (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: 1st & Ten is an American situation comedy that aired between December 1984 and January 1991 on the cable television network HBO. Featuring series regulars Delta Burke and veteran Reid Shelton, it was one of cable's first attempts to lure ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty
Plot: american football, cheerleader, partner, retirement home, sport team, realism, power relations, friends, couples, ambition, rivalry, battle of the sexes ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Super Sweet 16: The Movie (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, stylized, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: high school, friendship, rivalry, friends, contests and competitions, birthday party, ambition, lifestyle, couples, youth, wealth, love ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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