Movies like Major League II
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Major League II (1994)
28K
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Those Cleveland Indians are at it again! After losing in the ALCS the year before, the Indians are determined to make it into the World Series this time! First, though, they have to contend with Rachel Phelps again when she buys back the team. Also, has Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn lost his edge? Are Jake's knees strong enough to make it as a catcher another year? These and other questions are answered as the Indians recapture the magic and win the championship "their way".
Style:
clever, funny, smart, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy, inspirational, romantic ...
Audience:
manly, teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
baseball, voodoo, underdog, coach, radio, competition, contest, tournament, guts, satire, sport competition, exodus, racing, rivalry, sport team, friendship, friends, athlete and trainer, ambition, contests and competitions, lifestyle, nothing goes right, partner, silly humor, buddies ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 1990s
Place:
cleveland ohio
Keyword:
sport, americana, partners, gangsters, buddy movie
Most similar movies to Major League II
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and semi serious films with plots about ambition, underdog, contests and competitions, rivalry, friends, sport team and athlete and trainer mostly in Comedy, Sport and Family genres. Some movies like Major League II: Grind (2003), Necessary Roughness (1991), The Bad News Bears (1976), Ladybugs (1992), D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At the behest of Roger Dorn -- the Minnesota Twins' silver-tongued new owner -- washed-up minor league hurler Gus Cantrell steps up to the plate to take over as skipper of the club's hapless farm team. But little does he know that Dorn has ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
baseball, underdog, major league, racing, sport competition, contest, competition, tournament, sport team, rivalry, training, career ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
minnesota, usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
13K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Four skaters follow their idol on his summer tour in an attempt to get noticed, get sponsored, and become stars themselves.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, funny, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
skateboard, road trip, friendship, underdog, high school, friendship between men, lifestyle, rivalry, ambition, partner, contests and competitions, college ...
Time:
year 2003, y2k, 2000s
Place:
santa monica california, tucson arizona, london, england, europe ...
⇓ 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, 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%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
Style:
inspirational, intense, talky, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
baseball, underdog, youth, baseball coach, coach, childhood, competition, unlikely friendships, sport team, motorcycle, human spirit, contests and competitions ...
Time:
20th century, year 1976, 70s
Place:
california, usa, san francisco, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight back: dodgeball. Aided by a ...
Style:
humorous, funny, hilarious, slapstick, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
underdog, against the odds, dumb, coach, tournament, competition, cheerleader, pirate, redemption, rivalry, contests and competitions, gym ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
10K
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%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Ducks are offered scholarships at Eden Hall Academy but struggle with their new coach's methods and come under pressure from the board to retain their scholarships before their big game against the Varsity team.
Style:
epic, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot:
ice hockey, hockey, competition, high school, olympics, childhood, college, school, coming of age, underdog, winter, happy ending ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
minnesota, 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, humorous, feel good
Audience:
teens
Plot:
baseball, childhood, high school, youth, redemption, underdog, sport team, friends, family relations, estrangement, parents and children, against the odds ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
texas, austin texas, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When Rachel Phelps inherits the Cleveland Indians from her deceased husband, she's determined to move the team to a warmer climate -- but only a losing season will make that possible, which should be easy given the misfits she's hired. ...
Style:
funny, humorous, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
baseball, underdog, rivalry, professional sports, ambition, major league, rise to the top, contests and competitions, follow your dream, against the odds, misfit, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
miami, ohio, florida, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Two slacker wrestling fans are devastated by the ousting of their favorite character by an unscrupulous promoter.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, funny, intense, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
wrestling, underdog, cheerleader, wrestler, friendship, loser, ambition, goofy hero, follow your dream, athlete's life, down on your luck, disorder ...
Time:
y2k, year 2016, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like Moneyball
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 ⇓
29%
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, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
baseball, mentor, coming of age, human spirit, rivalry, against the odds, ambition, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, softball, parents and children, hopes ...
Time:
year 2005, 20th century, 70s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In this third film version of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promotor/hustler who takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a ...
Style:
humorous, family comedy, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
baseball, childhood, youth, culture clash, sport team, coach, power relations, friends, misfit, athlete's life, contests and competitions, friendship ...
Time:
year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A washed-up baseball player becomes an attorney. He gets a chance at redemption when his boss asks him to manage the company softball team in hopes of winning a championship.
Style:
funny, feel good, captivating, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
baseball, ambition, against the odds, rivalry, team, baseball team, contests and competitions, group of friends, underdog, mentor, adult humor, clumsiness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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:
humorous, inspirational, stylized, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
baseball, redemption, underdog, friendship, ambition, rivalry, athlete's life, contests and competitions, hopes, journalism, major league, racing ...
Time:
year 2004, 90s, 2000s
Place:
wisconsin, milwaukee wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Movies like Happy Gilmore
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Jack Cooper (Matt LeBlanc) could be a world-class baseball pitcher if he didn't keep buckling under the pressure. He tries to keep his spirits up after he's traded to a minor league team but loses all hope when he discovers that Ed, one of ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, feel good, family comedy, offbeat ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
baseball, chimpanzee, athlete's life, against the odds, friendship, partner, lifestyle, hopes, kidnapping, rivalry, animal life, underdog ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 ⇓
27%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A decade has passed in the small town where the original Sandlot gang banded together during the summer of ’62 to play baseball and battle the Beast. Now comes the sequel, a campy romp back to the dugout where nine new kids descend on the diamond ...
Style:
feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
sport team, youth, baseball, friendship, vengeance, partner, friends, teenage life, ambition, coming of age, buddies, rivalry ...
Time:
year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The film centers on a fight promoter (Mark Feuerstein) deeply in debt to his crooked rival. Desperate for a new fighter that will help him win back everything he owes, the promoter catches a break when a 450-pound church handyman (Paul "Big ...
Style:
not serious, exciting, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disorder, contests and competitions, friendship, athlete's life, buddies, ambition, against the odds, partner, misfit, lifestyle, wrestler, competition ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A Florida boy (Bryan Russell) tells his Little League buddies that his father knows two New York Yankees (Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris).
Style:
uplifting, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
baseball, youth, new york yankees, coach, sport team, partner, parents and children, against the odds, school, teenage life, cons and scams, power relations ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
12-year-old Henry Rowengartner, whose late father was a minor league baseball player, grew up dreaming of playing baseball, despite his physical shortcomings. After Henry's arm is broken while trying to catch a baseball at school, the tendon in ...
Style:
inspirational, feel good, exciting, epic, hilarious ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
baseball, childhood, children, underdog, sport team, contests and competitions, mentor, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, ambition, rivalry, hopes ...
Time:
20th century, year 1993, 90s
Place:
chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop & Remer, invent a new game playing basketball, using baseball rules. When the game becomes a huge success, they, along with a billionaire's help, form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone ...
Style:
parody, humorous, absurd, spoof, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
baseball, basketball, friends, farce, unlikely friendships, underdog, business, partner, rivalry, rise to the top, ambition, satire ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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:
road movie, black comedy, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
baseball, blaxploitation, urban, black, african, power relations, sport team, athlete and trainer, underdog, contests and competitions, rivalry, follow your dream ...
Time:
1930s, year 1976
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
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Films like The Mighty Ducks
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 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, light, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
basketball, coach, high school, contests and competitions, ex athlete, youth, misfit, sport team, teenage life, ambition, hopes, friends ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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, clever, stylized, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
boxing, boxer, satire, justice, adaptation, athlete's life, contests and competitions, rivalry, investigation, cons and scams, power relations, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, cleveland ohio, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
493
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:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
buddies, skiing, rivalry, friends, ambition, lifestyle, against the odds, uninhibited rivalry, underdog, hopes, athlete's life, human spirit ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After Gordon Bombay's hockey comeback is cut short he is named coach of Team USA Hockey for the Junior Goodwill Games. Bombay reunites the Mighty Ducks and introduces a few new players, however, he finds himself distracted by his newfound fame ...
Style:
spectacular, epic, hilarious, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
ice hockey, hockey, competition, childhood, olympics, underdog, youth, friendship, teenager, winter, athlete and trainer, child ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place:
minnesota, los angeles, iceland, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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:
not serious, feel good, humorous
Audience:
pre-teens, teens, family outing, date night
Plot:
basketball, humour, satire, weirdo, partner, friends, disorder, power relations, sport team, contests and competitions, misfit, athlete and trainer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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