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Division III: Football's Finest (2011)
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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 in jeopardy, as they have not had a winning season in decades. In a desperate attempt to create some media attention for the athletic program and the university, President Georgia Anne Whistler hires known lunatic and felon, Coach Rick Vice, for what could be the football programs final season.
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, ridiculous
Audience: teens
Plot: american football, cheerleader, football, fight, sport team, contests and competitions, power relations, athlete and trainer, social relations, against the odds, male female relationship, championship, sportscaster, fraternity, student athlete, teenager, heart, intimidation, rivalry, pretty girl, profanity, sexual content, white trash, silly humor, underdog ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa
Keyword: sport, football movie

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, feel good and semi serious films with plots about rivalry, ambition, sport team, underdog, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer and power relations mostly in Comedy, Sport and Romance genres. Some movies like Division III: Football's Finest: Wildcats (1986), Lucky Trouble (2011), The Benchwarmers (2006), Johnny Be Good (1988), The Comebacks (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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Lucky Trouble (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Who said you have to win to be a champion? Slava Kolotiloff, a schoolteacher from a sleepy seaside town by the name of "Fingers" comes to conquer Moscow with the manuscript to his first novel in hand. But instead, quite by accident, he ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, light ...
Audience: family outing
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Time: 21st century
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Benchwarmers (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league squads.
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: baseball, youth, mentor, contests and competitions, ambition, coming of age, bullying, group of friends, clumsiness, vengeance, millionaire, pizza ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ...
Style: independent film, teen sex comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: american football, football, brat pack, cheerleader, college, high school, underdog, coming of age, teenager, revenge, student athlete, love ...
Time: 80s, future
Place: texas, alabama, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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
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45%
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
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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 ⇓
41%
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Beer League (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An unemployed slacker (Lange) inspires his softball teammates to improve their game so they won't get kicked out of the local league.
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, exciting, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: baseball, stripper, bet, contests and competitions, buddies, partner, small town, against the odds, underdog, friendship, male female relationship, jail ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Pom Pom Girls (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A football player at Rosedale High School is amorous of one of the cheerleaders, who is going with another guy. Another player can't decide which of two cheerleaders he wants to be with. Meanwhile, the Big Game with Hardin High School is ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, sexy, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
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Time: year 1976, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 ⇓
40%
 6.2
 1K
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
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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 ⇓
40%
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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, breast cancer, rivalry, contests and competitions, against the odds, friendship, cheerleader, strong female presence, sport team, underdog, ambition, menopause ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austin texas, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland (2016)
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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 ⇓
39%
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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
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Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
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39%
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Duration: 93 min.
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Style: funny, humorous, sexy, satirical, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, adult
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Time: 21st century
Place: nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.1
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108 Stitches (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.5
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Several players from different backgrounds try to cope with the pressures of playing football at a major university. Each deals with the pressure differently, some turn to drinking, others to drugs, and some to studying.
Style: talky, exciting, intense, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
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Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: funny, humorous, hilarious, intense, not serious ...
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Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could ...
Style: realistic, talky, melancholic, sincere, sentimental ...
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Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.0
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On Edge (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, mockumentary
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38%
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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.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.1
 177K
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Duration: 90 min.
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37%
 6.0
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Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
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Style: witty, feel good, inspirational, intense, stylized ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 3.9
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
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Style: sex comedy, realistic, not serious, sexy, sexual ...
Plot: golf, teenager, heart attack, sexual attraction, blonde, female nudity, voyeurism, voyeur, breaking the fourth wall, trophy wife, public nudity, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.8
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Semi-Pro (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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Style: funny, inspirational, entertaining, stylized, humorous ...
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Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.7
 2K
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
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37%
 4.7
 646
Coach (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.4
 8K
Jump In! (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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37%
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