Movies like Mr. Baseball

If you like "Mr. Baseball" you are looking for feel good, anamorphic and sentimental movies about / with baseball, abroad, racing, sport team, culture clash, fish out of water and misfit themes of Comedy, Romance and Sport genre shot in USA or Japan.
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Mr. Baseball (1992)
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Mr. Baseball (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?
Style: feel good, anamorphic, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: kids
Plot: baseball, abroad, racing, sport team, culture clash, fish out of water, misfit, love and romance, athlete and trainer, fall in love, self discovery, society, ambition, contests and competitions, lifestyle, disorder, major league, teaching the ways of the world, power relations, male nudity, self confidence, father daughter relationship, translator, happy ending, masturbation ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s
Place: japan, asia
Keyword: sport

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Most similar movies to Mr. Baseball

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, semi serious and realistic films with plots about ambition, contests and competitions, rivalry, power relations, hopes, sport team and lifestyle mostly in Comedy, Sport and Romance genres. Some movies like Mr. Baseball: The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978), Mr 3000 (2004), Train Man (2005), Bull Durham (1988), Coach (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
95%
Major League: Back to the Minors (1998)
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 ⇓
82%
 5.6
 15K
Mr 3000 (2004)
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 ⇓
79%
 6.7
 2K
Train Man (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Densha Otoko (translated as Train Man) is a Japanese movie based on the purportedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervened when a drunk man was harassing a woman on a train. The otaku ultimately started dating with her and ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, existential ...
Audience: date night
Plot: teaching the ways of the world, fish out of water, fall in love, disorder, lifestyle, love and romance, socially awkward, social anxiety, bravery, loneliness, isolation, railway ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Bull Durham (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, "Nuke" Laloosh. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start and is further complicated when baseball groupie Annie ...
Style: sexy, cult classic, inspirational, funny, realistic ...
Plot: baseball, small town, coach, love triangle, mentor, relationships, age difference, manic pixie dream girl, sexual content, nudity, older woman younger man relationship, summer ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 5.4
 1K
Coach (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A slacker trust-fund type finds the motivation to pick up a job as the coach of middle school soccer team
Style: semi serious, humorous, entertaining, light, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: coach, ambition, lifestyle, hopes, direction and purpose, slacker, misfit, football, soccer, buddies, athlete and trainer, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 5.3
 234
The Yankles (2009)
Genre: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: About Charlie Jones, a washed up, ex major league ballplayer, and how he gets a second chance at life and love by managing a Jewish, orthodox yeshiva baseball team.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, independent film ...
Plot: against the odds, culture clash, sport team, rabbi, ambition, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, rivalry, society, religions or cults, hopes, baseball ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 ⇓
74%
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The World's Greatest Athlete (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he can reverse the school's athletic fortunes. An African vacation with his assistant (Tim Conway) answers Archer's prayers when he spots the ...
Style: slapstick, not serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: american football, track and field, police, animal, student athlete, jungle, fall in love, farce, fish out of water, power relations, disorder, rivalry ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Major League II (1994)
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, ...
Style: clever, funny, smart, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: manly, family outing, teens
Plot: baseball, voodoo, underdog, coach, sport competition, racing, exodus, guts, satire, tournament, competition, radio ...
Time: 90s
Place: cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Save Your Legs! (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When cricket obsessed Teddy Brown realizes his mates are growing up and moving on, he leads them and his D-Grade team on an audacious tour of India, where stumps fly, friendships fray and Ted learns that it's time to start playing shots for ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot: ambition, follow your dream, rivalry, sport team, society, buddies, contests and competitions, hopes, culture clash, fish out of water, underdog, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
The Main Event (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Hillary Kramer, successful Perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write off. She decides to take ...
Style: romantic comedy, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: boxing, underdog, screwball, fish out of water, love, martial arts, disco, teenager, forbidden love, opposites attract, financial ruin, driving instructor ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
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 ⇓
70%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Americanizing Shelley (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A wannabe Hollywood player sets out to Americanize an Indian girl from the Himalayas.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching
Audience: date night
Plot: hollywood, opposites attract, fall in love, disorder, social differences, misfit, celebrity culture, filmmaking, teaching the ways of the world, fish out of water, country, immigration ...
Place: usa, himalaya, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
When Harry Tries to Marry (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An Indian-American surprises his family when he announces his desire for an arranged marriage with an Indian woman, though his affection for a longtime American friend complicate his plan.
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: looking for love, fall in love, true love, couples, immigrant, unlikely couple, society, self discovery, wedding preparations and rituals, friendship, interracial love, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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 ⇓
68%
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 ⇓
68%
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Shanghai Calling (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When ambitious New York attorney Sam is sent to Shanghai on assignment, he immediately stumbles into a legal mess that could end his career. With the help of a beautiful relocation specialist, a well-connected old-timer, a clever journalist, and a ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, independent film
Audience: date night
Plot: asian man white woman relationship, disorder, workplace situations, workplace romance, fall in love, love and romance, misfit, legal, fish out of water, business, interracial romance, shrewd ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Bitter/Sweet (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Thailand, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: American businessman Brian Chandler has a perfect life with a great job and beautiful fiancée. When his boss, renegade coffee mogul Calvert Jenkins sends him to Thailand to inspect a crop for purchase, Brian meets Ticha, a beautiful Bangkok ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, business trip, cultural difference, coffee shop, self discovery, fall in love, disorder, fish out of water, lifestyle, village, food, estranged father ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
30 Days Until I'm Famous (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Latina working in Los Angeles as a messenger is randomly discovered and fashioned into a pop music star.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: rising to stardom, musician's life, ambition, starting over, fall in love, teenage life, showbiz, teaching the ways of the world, lifestyle, wooing, couples, celebrity culture ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Cutting Edge (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two former Olympians, one a figure skater and the other a hockey player, pin their hopes of one last shot at Olympic glory on one another. That is, of course, if they can keep from killing each other in the process...
Style: sweet, feel good, light, romantic comedy, teen ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, kids, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: figure skating, skating, opposites attract, underdog, happy ending, olympics, fall in love, competition, love, hockey, winter, couples ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: france, minnesota, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 7.2
 76K
Major League (1989)
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 ⇓
66%
Movie in collections
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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 ⇓
66%
Born Yesterday (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A businessman shows up in Washington to lobby agendas that are friendly to his construction plans. His ditsy ex-showgirl bimbo proves to be an embarrassment in social situations, so he hires a reporter to teach her how to appear more intelligent. ...
Style: humorous, satirical, semi serious, witty, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: politics, farce, society, fall in love, love and romance, journalism, social differences, self discovery, teaching the ways of the world, couples, women, corruption ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two ice skaters develop a love-hate relationship while dreaming of Olympic glory.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: figure skating, olympics, ambition, friends, opposites attract, contests and competitions, teenager, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, power relations, love and romance, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 6.0
 189
Tea & Sangria (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Jilted in Madrid, a bewildered Englishman must learn to live and love again - the Spanish way.
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: date night
Plot: life turned upside down, culture clash, fish out of water, love and romance, society, misfit, disorder, social relations, love
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 5.4
 7K
The Scout (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout Al Percolo (Albert Brooks) gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potential gold mine in the arm of young phenom Steve Nebraska (Brendan Fraser). Soon, the ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, light, satirical, sentimental ...
Plot: baseball, father son relationship, adaptation, mentor, storytelling, power relations, friendship, lifestyle, athlete's life, self discovery, ambition, nothing goes right ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: new york, usa, latin america, mexico, nebraska
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Dorfman in Love (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Unknowingly trapped in her role as caretaker of her unappreciative family, a young single woman desperately needs to get her own life. When she volunteers to cat sit at her unrequited love's downtown L.A loft, her world, as she knows it, ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: fall in love, lifestyle, self discovery, unrequited love, fish out of water, life turned upside down, looking for love, daydreamer, disorder, misfit, singleness, love triangle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 5.1
 17K
Summer Catch (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A coming-of-age romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Local boy Ryan Dunne (Freddie Prinze Jr.), now a pitcher for Boston College, meets Tenley Parrish (Jessica Biel), the daughter of a wealthy couple who summer ...
Style: romantic, semi serious, realistic, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night
Plot: small town, youth, baseball, athlete's life, woman in a bikini, rivalry, social differences, ambition, follow your dream, fall in love, young lovers, lifestyle ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: usa, massachusetts, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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