Movies like Moneyball

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Moneyball (2011)
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Moneyball (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
Style: inspirational, captivating, feel good, realistic, thought provoking, clever, serious, motivational, witty, talky ...
Plot: sport, baseball, mathematics, success, rise to the top, underdog, strategy, statistics, business, entrepreneur, obsession, ambition, meaning of life, teamwork, team, coach, career, overcoming, rivalry, sport team, glory, determination, lifestyle, recruit, championship ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 2000s, year 2002, year 1979, year 1984, year 2001 ...
Place: california, usa, san francisco, boston, new jersey, oakland california

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Most similar movies to Moneyball

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out inspirational, realistic, feel good and entertaining films with plots about ambition, mentor, honest, sport, underdog, dialogue and storytelling mostly in Drama, Sport and Biography genres. Some movies like Moneyball: Trouble with the Curve (2012), Draft Day (2014), Million Dollar Arm (2014), Friday Night Lights (2004), Glory Road (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Trouble with the Curve (2012)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. Along the way, the two renew their bond, and she catches the eye of a young player-turned-scout.
Style: inspirational, touching, melancholic, entertaining, light ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: baseball, father daughter relationship, sport, aging, reluctant, blind character, pitcher, kids and family, destiny, good versus evil, parent grown child relationship, scout ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa, georgia, california, boston ...
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100%
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Draft Day (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: At the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must decide what he's willing to sacrifice on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with NFL dreams.
Style: inspirational, exciting, intense, semi serious, talky ...
Plot: american football, football, sport, negotiation, boss and employee, honest, suspense, power relations, overcoming, ambition, disorder, one last chance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, san francisco, cleveland ohio, usa, ohio ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Million Dollar Arm (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein (Jon Hamm) dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great pitcher from a pool of cricket players in India. He soon discovers two young men who can throw a ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, touching, sentimental, dramatic ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: sport, baseball, underdog, disney, culture clash, rags to riches, athlete's life, fish out of water, against the odds, ambition, rivalry, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, california, usa, boston, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Friday Night Lights (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town's dormant ...
Style: inspirational, intense, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: football, sport, high school, sport team, american football, coach, underdog, youth, championship, athlete's life, career, cheerleading ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa, canada, austin texas, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.2
 47K
Glory Road (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.
Style: inspirational, feel good, sincere, emotional, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, teens, girls' night
Plot: basketball, racism, underdog, athlete and trainer, coach, sport, college, racial slur, teamwork, racial segregation, justice, unlikely friendships ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1966
Place: texas, usa, el paso texas, indiana, maryland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 157K
The Founder (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise ...
Style: inspirational, motivational, realistic, uplifting, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: business, rags to riches, fast food, businessman, greed, capitalism, ambition, salesman, betrayal, money, fast food restaurant, mcdonald's restaurant ...
Time: 50s, year 1929, year 1967, year 1940, year 1954 ...
Place: america, usa, california, beverly hills, minneapolis minnesota ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Chasing Mavericks (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, inspirational, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: surfing, mentor protege relationship, sport, coach, progress, lifestyle, ambition, friends, drowning, dedication, obsessive quest, youth ...
Time: year 1987, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 98K
42 (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The powerful story of Jackie Robinson, the legendary baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he joined the roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The film follows the innovative Dodgers’ general manager Branch Rickey, the ...
Style: sentimental, inspirational, emotional, factual, touching ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: racism, baseball, sport, against the odds, rivalry, african american, athlete and trainer, americana, rise to the top, human spirit, hopes, civil rights ...
Time: 1940s, 70s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1948 ...
Place: boston, new jersey, california, africa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Rudy (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems. His grades were a little low, his athletic skills were poor, and he was only half the size ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, emotional, uplifting, touching ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, girls' night
Plot: american football, sport, underdog, college, motivation, aspiration, ambition, american football player, mentor, high school, football, youth ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s
Place: indiana, boston, new jersey, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 8.1
 407K
Ford v Ferrari (2019)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the ...
Style: inspirational, exciting, realistic, captivating, motivational ...
Audience: teens
Plot: racecar driver, car racing, car race, car, race, ambition, talented, rise to the top, race car, desire for fame, friendship, auto mechanic ...
Time: 60s, year 1966, year 1959, 20th century
Place: france, los angeles, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 7.0
 73K
Invincible (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Inspired by the true story of Vince Papale, a man with nothing to lose who ignored the staggering odds and made his dream come true. When the coach of Papale's beloved hometown football team hosted an unprecedented open tryout, the public ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, sentimental, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, family outing, girls' night, kids
Plot: underdog, american football, sport, football, teacher, follow your dream, against the odds, determination, team, teamwork, disney, success ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, philadelphia, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
When the Game Stands Tall (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A young coach turns a losing high school football program around to go undefeated for 12 consecutive seasons.
Style: uplifting, captivating, exciting, sincere, serious ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: american football, sport, rise to the top, athlete and trainer, ambition, small town, contests and competitions, rivalry, youth, coach, sport team, christian ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, california, oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 156K
Coach Carter (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.
Style: motivational, inspirational, touching, sincere, feel good ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot: basketball, sport, high school, teacher, teachers and students, athlete and trainer, underdog, teenager, life philosophy, athlete's life, human spirit, dedicated educator ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, new jersey, texas, usa, sacramento california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.8
 441K
The Big Short (2015)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
Style: intellectual, realistic, clever, tense, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: finance, business, wall street, money, economics, stock market, greed, financial crisis, loan, economic crisis, banking, bank ...
Time: 2000s, future, year 2007, year 1933, year 2008 ...
Place: new york, california, manhattan new york city, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 17K
61* (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally loved, while the other, Maris, was universally hated. Both men started off with a bang, and both were nearing Babe Ruth's 60 home run record. ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, feel good, sincere ...
Plot: sport, baseball, rivalry, friendship, fan, contests and competitions, fame, against the odds, success, lifestyle, athlete's life, rising to stardom ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1961, year 1998
Place: usa, new york yankees, new york, north dakota, kansas city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Social Network (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among ...
Style: clever, intellectual, realistic, entertaining, witty ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: entrepreneur, computer genius, facebook, geek, computer, programmer, computers and web, inventions and discoveries, rise to the top, social relations, hacker, ambition ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place: harvard university, california, usa, san francisco, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 8.2
 69K
Run Milkha Run (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 186 min.
Story: The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.
Style: inspirational, realistic, meditative, uplifting, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: sport, rise to the top, talented, running, life, olympics, athlete's life, lifestyle, rising to stardom, follow your dream, ambition, rivalry ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 50s, 20th century, year 1960 ...
Place: india, rome italy, asia, punjab, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 40K
McFarland, USA (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.
Style: inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, exciting ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: sport, teacher, coach, underdog, track and field, athlete and trainer, human spirit, teenager, mentor, school, high school, dedicated educator ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, california, texas, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.1
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Gridiron Gang (2006)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Teenagers at a juvenile detention center, under the leadership of their counselor, gain self-esteem by playing football together.
Style: inspirational, realistic, serious, sincere, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, girls' night
Plot: american football, juvenile delinquency, athlete and trainer, sport, football, prison, youth, underdog, redemption, african american, gang, life philosophy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, new jersey, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
For Love of the Game (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, romantic, intense ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: baseball, sport, loneliness, love story, unlikely friendships, looking for love, love and romance, athlete's life, training, hopes, major league, baseball player ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, california, san francisco, boston, new jersey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A biopic of 20-year-old Francis Ouimet who defeated his golfing idol and 1900 US Open Champion, Harry Vardon.
Style: motivational, inspirational, captivating, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: golf, sport, rags to riches, underdog, working class, athlete's life, prodigy, human spirit, disney, ambition, lifestyle, social differences ...
Time: 1910s, 60s, 1930s, 90s, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, new jersey, boston, scotland, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
Style: inspirational, emotional, sentimental, dramatic, motivational ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, teens
Plot: life, life philosophy, rags to riches, human spirit, homeless, rise to the top, against the odds, life is a bitch, ambition, down on your luck, hopes, single father ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.8
 88K
Goon (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Doug Glatt, a slacker who discovers he has a talent for brawling is approached by a minor league hockey coach and invited to join the team as the "muscle." Despite the fact that Glatt can't skate his best friend, Pat, convinces him to ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, funny, humorous, witty ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: ice hockey, sport, dimwit, underdog, success, fame, bouncer, misfit, ambition, relationships, love story, fight scenes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, new jersey, boston, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 7.6
 340K
The Blind Side (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Oversized African-American, Michael Oher, the teen from across the tracks and a broken home, has nowhere to sleep at age 16. Taken in by an affluent Memphis couple, Michael embarks on a remarkable rise to play for the NFL.
Style: inspirational, touching, emotional, sentimental, motivational ...
Audience: family outing, teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot: american football, life, adoption, christian, interracial relations, human spirit, african american, football, rising to stardom, parents and children, racism, strong female character ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, tennessee, mississippi, memphis, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.4
 48K
Hoosiers (1986)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: High school basketball is king in small-town Indiana, and the 1954 Hickory Huskers are all hope and no talent. But their new coach -- abrasive, unlikable Norman Dale -- whips the team into shape ... while also inciting controversy.
Style: inspirational, realistic, emotional, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: basketball, high school, small town, sport, underdog, high school basketball, alcoholic, father son relationship, championship, basketball coach, athlete and trainer, redemption ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 80s
Place: indiana, usa, california, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Remember the Titans (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a ...
Style: inspirational, sentimental, touching, feel good, emotional ...
Audience: kids, teens, chick flick, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot: racism, african american, sport, high school, american football, racial tension, civil rights, racial prejudice, prejudice, racial slur, friendship, coach ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: virginia, africa, new jersey, california, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.2
 172K
Steve Jobs (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Style: realistic, thought provoking, factual, cerebral, talky ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: computer, father daughter relationship, entrepreneur, prodigy, business, internet, computers and web, technology, friendship, creativity, adaptation, depression ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998, year 1984, 80s ...
Place: usa, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
 487K
Rush (2013)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A biographical drama centered on the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula One motor-racing season.
Style: inspirational, realistic, tense, exciting, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car race, sport, rivalry, racecar driver, rise to the top, race, formula 1, race car, world champion, motor sport, car racing, success ...
Time: 70s, year 1986, year 1975, year 1970, year 1976 ...
Place: europe, sao paulo brazil, mount fuji, japan, vienna ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
We Are Marshall (2006)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
Style: emotional, sentimental, inspirational, touching, compassionate ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot: sport, football, college, american football, air disaster, coach, football team, survivor, university, friendship, small town, teacher ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa, new jersey, california, west virginia, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.2
 29K
Secretariat (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin - manages to ...
Style: inspirational, sentimental, touching, emotional, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: horse, sport, horse race, animals, animal training, racehorse, underdog, against the odds, equestrian, beautiful scenery, jockey, horse riding ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%