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Coach (1978)
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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 team loses, so he can fire her for poor performance
Style:
grindhouse, sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, teen sex comedy, cult film
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, female athlete, sexism, love, power of love, school, youth, college, prodigy, teachers and students, human spirit, athlete and trainer, high school life, love affair, discrimination, teenage life, rivalry, society, ambition, sport team, high school, contests and competitions, lifestyle, social relations, partner ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
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Most similar movies to Coach
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about ambition, underdog, rivalry, lifestyle, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer and sport team mostly in Comedy, Sport and Family genres. Some movies like Coach: Fast Break (1979), Bring It On: In It to Win It (2007), Wildcats (1986), Rebound (2005), Like Mike 2: Streetball (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, teenager, transsexual, student athlete, culture clash, college, stoner, disorder, power relations, sport team, rivalry, fugitives ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
nevada, usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
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:
teen, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleader, cheerleading, hottie, dancing, teenage girl, college, nubile girl, forbidden love, dance, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
100%
16K
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, light, entertaining, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
american football, football, high school football, high school, coach, rivalry, mother daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, custody battle, sport team, ambition, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
14K
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:
entertaining, feel good, touching, funny, black comedy ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
basketball, college, sport team, youth, follow your dream, underdog, lifestyle, against the odds, ambition, prodigy, teenage life, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
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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, black comedy, semi serious
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
true love, basketball, hopes, young lovers, friendship, follow your dream, underdog, rivalry, athlete's life, contests and competitions, buddies, ambition ...
Similarity:
100%
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, light, inspirational, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, manly, kids, boys' night
Plot:
american football, underdog, football team, college, sport team, football, coach, college dean, teacher student relationship, professor, college football, happy ending ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 80s
Place:
texas, usa, austin texas, new jersey, california ...
Similarity:
100%
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, spiritual
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
hopes, athlete and trainer, small town, youth, underdog, ambition, rivalry, contests and competitions, prodigy, against the odds, dedicated educator, human spirit ...
Time:
60s, year 2006
Place:
oklahoma, usa
Similarity:
100%
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, raunchy comedy, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sex, nerd, cheerleader, love, school, farce, power relations, social relations, friends, disorder, campaign, lifestyle ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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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:
slapstick, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot:
american football, football, writers, coach, talent show, sport team, power relations, athlete's life, ego clash, journalism, lifestyle, rivalry ...
Time:
60s
Place:
detroit, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Sentimental sequel film finds the Bears, somehow, the little league champions of California. As a result, the team is invited to play a between-games exhibition at the Houston Astrodome with the local champs, the Toros. Kelly Leak, the Bears' ...
Style:
family comedy, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
baseball, childhood, high school, youth, underdog, redemption, baseball coach, sport team, family relations, estrangement, friends, high school life ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
texas, houston texas, austin texas, tokyo, japan ...
Similarity:
100%
12K
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:
light, inspirational, entertaining, feel good, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
basketball, female protagonist, basketball coach, fish out of water, limousine driver, life philosophy, follow your dream, hopes, rivalry, ambition, friendship, against the odds ...
Time:
year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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:
teen sex comedy, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
american football, football, bare chested male, cheerleader, college, high school, coming of age, underdog, american football player, revenge, teenager, foot fetish ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
texas, north america, alabama, los angeles, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 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:
sexy, funny, humorous, entertaining, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
tennis, teacher, mentor, stereotypes, athlete and trainer, ambition, rivalry, youth, misfit, lifestyle, school, underdog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nebraska, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
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's life, hotshot hero, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, contests and competitions, hopes, rivalry, follow your dream, underdog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, venice beach california
Similarity:
100%
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, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
baseball, high school, coming of age, college, graduation, teen angst, partner, performer's life, sport team, friends, couples, power relations ...
Time:
70s
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
100%
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:
black comedy, road movie, sentimental, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
baseball, blaxploitation, baseball coach, baseball player, black, urban, african, sport team, power relations, racism, on the road, interracial relations ...
Time:
1930s, year 1976
Place:
africa
Similarity:
100%
525
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:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
buddies, skiing, rivalry, friends, ambition, lifestyle, against the odds, partner, uninhibited rivalry, hopes, human spirit, underdog ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
100%
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, lifestyle, follow your dream, ambition, human spirit, teenage life, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A white school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined black high school basketball team and turns them into a winning team.
Style:
hood, humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, high school, hip hop, underdog, high school sports, urban, black, african american, teacher, ghetto, discrimination, education ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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, journalism, lifestyle, human spirit, farce, rivalry, nothing goes right, hopes, buddies, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, odd couple ...
Similarity:
100%
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, coach, follow your dream, young lovers, youth, ambition, athlete and trainer, coming of age, rivalry, contests and competitions, university, high school ...
Time:
70s
Place:
colorado, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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:
humorous, feel good, not serious
Audience:
pre-teens, teens, family outing, date night
Plot:
basketball, satire, weirdo, humour, partner, follow your dream, nothing goes right, human spirit, contests and competitions, misfit, rivalry, athlete's life ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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, sentimental, light, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, teen drama
Plot:
soccer, school, youth, childhood, underdog, athlete and trainer, football, friendship, against the odds, high school life, teachers and students, small town life ...
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
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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:
teen sex comedy, witty, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
surfing, lifeguard, sexual attraction, female nudity, high school, teenage love, teenage life, friendship, lifestyle, best friend, love affair, buddies ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
costa rica, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
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, lifestyle, youth, high school, sport team, love and romance, teenage life, rivalry, high school hunk ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, malibu california, florida, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A pair of thrill-seeking nerds pioneer a new extreme craze that doesn't so much sweep the nation as portions of a small faction of their high school. The craze is 'boxboarding,' really just rolling down a hill with your vision ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
ambition, follow your dream, partner, friends, uninhibited rivalry, contests and competitions, high school life, celebrity culture, beach, rivalry, school, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
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 ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, inspirational
Plot:
teenage love, self discovery, beach volleyball, rivalry, ambition, sport team, youth, contests and competitions, athlete's life, ego clash, prodigy, underdog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, california, southern california
Similarity:
100%
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:
hockey, ice hockey, profanity, sport team, social relations, rivalry, athlete and trainer, hopes, orphan, underdog, lifestyle, against the odds ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south carolina, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 84 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, spoof, humorous, funny, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
football, baseball, american football, dumb, satire, coach, rivalry, college, social relations, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, against the odds ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
256
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:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleader, teenage life, friendship, against the odds, human spirit, ambition, follow your dream, parents and children, rivalry, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, athlete's life ...
Place:
usa, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
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