Movies like The Mighty Ducks

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The Mighty Ducks (1992)
 6.6
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The Mighty Ducks (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hockey team for his community service. Gordon has experience on the ice, but isn't eager to return to hockey, a point hit home by his tense dealings with his own former coach, Jack Reilly. The reluctant Gordon eventually grows to appreciate his team, which includes promising young Charlie Conway, and leads them to take on Reilly's tough players.
Style: inspirational, humorous, sweet, light, sentimental, entertaining, feel good, exciting, uplifting, epic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: hockey, ice hockey, sport team, happy ending, childhood, athlete and trainer, competition, underdog, foe turned friend, youth, redemption, self discovery, kids and family, unlikely friendships, contests and competitions, against the odds, ambition, winter, community service, teenager, motivation, contest, lawyer, love, new year ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, 1990s
Place: minnesota, minneapolis minnesota, california
Keyword: sport, oldies, challenge, buddy movie

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, semi serious and realistic films with plots about sport team, ambition, rivalry, contests and competitions, youth, friends and underdog mostly in Sport, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like The Mighty Ducks: The Sandlot (1993), Ladybugs (1992), Little Giants (1994), The Bad News Bears (1976), Stick It (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996)
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%
D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)
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 ⇓
80%
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The Sandlot (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. The neighborhood baseball guru Rodriquez takes Smalls under his wing. They fall into adventures involving baseball, treehouse sleep-ins, the ...
Style: feel good, funny, sentimental, teen, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, teen drama
Plot: baseball, childhood, coming of age, friendship, dog, adolescence, small town, boy, bullying, child, team, summer ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 90s, year 1962
Place: utah, california, los angeles, 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%
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Little Giants (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When Danny O'Shea's daughter is cut from the Peewee football team just for being a girl, he decides to form his own team, composed of other ragtag players who were also cut. Can his team really learn enough to beat the elite team, coached ...
Style: feel good, slapstick comedy, romantic comedy, funny, epic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: american football, underdog, football, cheerleader, childhood, coach, sexism, brother brother relationship, father daughter relationship, sibling rivalry, wager, single father ...
Time: 90s
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Bad News Bears (1976)
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%
 6.4
 30K
Stick It (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Haley is a naturally gifted athlete but, with her social behavior, the teen seems intent on squandering her abilities. After a final brush with the law, a judge sentences her to an elite gymnastics academy run by a legendary, hard-nosed coach. Once ...
Style: feel good, teen, inspirational, funny, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: gymnastics, teenager, rebelliousness, athlete and trainer, rivalry, gymnast, friends, contests and competitions, high school, competition, fighting the system, adolescence ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: austin texas, texas, usa, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 11K
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 ⇓
100%
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Rookie of the Year (1993)
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 ⇓
100%
The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
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Story: In present day Minnesota, the Mighty Ducks have evolved from scrappy underdogs to an ultra-competitive, powerhouse youth hockey team. After 12-year-old Evan is unceremoniously cut from the Ducks, he and his mom Alex set out to build their own ragtag ...
Style: captivating, entertaining, humorous, uplifting, teen comedy
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: ice hockey, sport team, child, team, teamwork, rivalry, coping, teenager, teenage life, ambition, contests and competitions, athlete's life ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 4K
Go Figure (2005)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Katelin Kingsford, an Olympic hopeful figure skater wants to train with a Russian figure skating coach. In order to go to go to the school that Natasha is at, Katelin gets a scholarship playing on the girls hockey team.
Style: semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: figure skating, ice hockey, skating, rivalry, follow your dream, athlete's life, ambition, teenage life, friendship, lifestyle, athlete and trainer, youth ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Disney's Air Bud (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young boy and a talented stray dog with an amazing basketball playing ability become instant friends. Rebounding from his father's accidental death, 12-year-old Josh Framm moves with his family to the small town of Fernfield, Washington. The ...
Style: inspirational, light, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, chick flick, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot: dog, golden retriever, basketball, animal, pets, friendship, happy ending, unlikely friendships, childhood, small town, human spirit, young heroes ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: washington state, seattle, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A League of Their Own (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey (Garry Marshall). Competitive sisters Dottie ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, sweet, witty ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: baseball, world war two, sister sister relationship, friendship, female friendship, female athlete, alcoholic, feminist, female protagonist, sibling rivalry, underdog, coach ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, 20th century, 90s
Place: oregon, chicago, indiana, usa, midwest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978)
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 ⇓
100%
Alley Cats Strike (2000)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A group of hip retro teenage outsiders become involved in an interschool bowling rivalry.
Style: uplifting, humorous, feel good, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: bowling, youth, ambition, friendship, contests and competitions, misfit, unlikely partners, rivalry, sport team, social differences, disorder, high school ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977)
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%
Never Too Young to Dream (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of kids have a dream: to play a football championship and to win. Their dream is going to be fulfilled by Don Pepe, an old guy with lots of expectations for his kids.
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: football, school, sport team, ambition, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, rivalry, small town, coach, soccer, janitor, old man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, san francisco, latin america, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Pee-Wee 3D: The Winter That Changed My Life (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 122 min.
Story: When his wife dies, Carl offers his only son, Janeau, 12, a fresh start. They move to Mont Saint-Hilaire, where Janeau makes friends with Julie, a talented Pee-Wee hockey goalie determined to compete in the annual World Tournament held in Quebec. ...
Style: inspirational, captivating, light, entertaining
Plot: ice hockey, teammate, championship, sport team, friendship, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, rise to the top, athlete's life, rivalry, professional rivalry, friends ...
Place: quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Air Up There (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the ...
Style: black comedy, funny, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot: basketball, culture clash, student athlete, humour, sport team, power relations, disorder, scout, contests and competitions, misfit, ambition, hopes ...
Time: year 1994, 20th century, 90s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Cool Runnings (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team.
Style: feel good, inspirational, funny, hilarious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: underdog, reggae, snow, childhood, olympics, winter, kids and family, heartwarming, racing, transformation, african american, winter olympics ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1988, year 1987
Place: canada, caribbean, antarctic, jamaica
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Angels in the Outfield (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favourite baseball team, the California Angels, wins the pennant. The problem is that the Angels are in last place, so Roger prays for help to turn ...
Style: inspirational, touching, entertaining, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: angel, baseball, childhood, coach, magic, parents and children, hopes, ambition, wish come true, rivalry, kids and family, underdog ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
MVP: Most Valuable Primate (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Jack is a three-year-old chimpanzee who has been the subject of a long-term experiment by Dr. Kendall, a researcher who been teaching Jack to communicate through sign language. ack scrambles onto the ice in the midst of practice for Steven's ...
Style: feel good, humorous, not serious, captivating, light
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: hockey, chimpanzee, youth, monkey, friendship, athlete's life, against the odds, ambition, buddies, underdog, contests and competitions, disorder ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
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Heavy Weights (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Camp Hope is a summer retreat for overweight boys run by a kindly couple who make the campers feel comfortable with their extra pounds. But when tyrannical fitness guru Tony buys the camp, he puts the kids on a cruel regimen that goes too far. Sick ...
Style: funny, cult classic, feel good, romantic comedy, spectacular ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing
Plot: summer camp, childhood, obesity, overweight, camp, fat boy, coming of age, bullying, youth, fitness, teenager, summer ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 5.8
 23K
Bad News Bears (2005)
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 ⇓
100%
 5.0
 49K
Tooth Fairy (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When minor-league hockey player Derek Thompson -- who has a penchant for knocking out his opponents' teeth every time he plays -- disillusions a fan, he is sentenced to a stint for one week as a bona fide, tutu-clad, real-life tooth fairy. ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, surreal, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: fairy, hockey, curses spells and rituals, transformation, fish out of water, ice hockey, imaginary, dream, fantasy world, teenager, wrestler, magic ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 2.7
 9K
Ed (1996)
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 ⇓
100%
Air Bud: Golden Receiver (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Josh and Buddy move from basketball to American football in this first of several sequels to the original Air Bud.
Style: inspirational, sentimental, humorous, feel good, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teens ...
Plot: dog, golden retriever, american football, pets, football, animal, kidnapping, family relations, coach, best friend, teenage life, friendship ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kicking & Screaming (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Phil Weston has been unathletic his entire life. In college he failed at every sport that he tried out for. It looks like his 10-year old son, Sam, is following in his footsteps. But with becoming the coach of The Soccers, an already successful ...
Style: funny, humorous, hilarious, intense, not serious ...
Audience: family outing, teens, family friendly
Plot: soccer, obsession, football, youth, underdog, sport team, farce, ambition, family life, goofy hero, parents and children, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Wild Soccer Bunch (2003)
Genre: Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The school year is over and for a diverse group of children between six and ten years with no worries, football is king! These kids are convinced they are the local gold team and there is nothing they like more than just improve their game. "If ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: children, soccer, boy, sport team, ambition, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, youth, teenager, youth gang, monkey ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Swimming for Gold (2020)
Genre: Family, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Young elite swimmer Claire is sent to Australia to coach a boys swimming team, where she must overcome an old rival and a secret fear to save the swimming camp from closing.
Style: light, captivating, feel good, entertaining, sincere
Audience: family outing
Plot: swimming, competition, friendship, contests and competitions, rivalry, coach, teenage angst, athlete's life, coping, sport team, world championship wrestling, direction and purpose ...
Place: oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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