Movies like Touchback
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Touchback (2011)
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A former high-school football star loses his shot at a college scholarship due to a devastating gridiron injury, but gets a second chance at living his dream.
Style:
sentimental, uplifting, captivating, disturbing, light, touching, serious, interesting
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
back in time, american football, small town, high school, coach, championship, sport, sent to the past, teenage life, contests and competitions, dream come true, social relations, small town life, hopes, one more chance, girlfriend, suicide attempt, human spirit, athlete and trainer, american dream, rivalry, ambition, unfulfillment, athlete's life, cheerleader ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary, 1990s
Place:
usa, iowa
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Most similar movies to Touchback
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and feel good films with plots about sport, hopes, ambition, power relations, rivalry, human spirit and athlete's life mostly in Drama, Sport and Family genres. Some movies like Touchback: Friday Night Lights (2004), Underdogs (2013), The Best of Times (1986), The Longshots (2008), Field of Dreams (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The true story of Olympic gold medalist Gail Devers (Charlayne Woodard) and her fight to combat Graves disease while becoming the fastest female sprinter in the world. From a setback in Seoul that nearly costs her the use of her feet to her ...
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting
Plot:
running, track and field, disability, power relations, radiation, ambition, unfulfillment, human spirit, athlete and trainer, hopes, athlete's life, sport ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
seoul, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set in rural Ohio, the birthplace of football, UNDERDOGS is the story of a small-town high school football team destined to play their cross-town rival, a perennial powerhouse, while standing up for an entire community.
Style:
feel good, realistic, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
american football, cheerleader, high school football, high school, underdog, sport team, sport, athlete and trainer, youth, human spirit, ambition, follow your dream ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night
Plot:
american football, sport, high school sports, sport team, small town, friends, social relations, power relations, high school, against the odds, small town life, haunted by the past ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.
Style:
feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
american football, sport, human spirit, athlete's life, ambition, athlete and trainer, battle of the sexes, youth, rivalry, underdog, gender, gangsters ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Coach Carter similar movies
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.
Style:
feel good, inspirational, sweet, sad, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, chick flick
Plot:
baseball, ghost, hearing voices, sport, regret, farm, small town, father son relationship, farmer, time travel, supernatural, magic realism ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
iowa, boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach Al Collins(Forest Whitaker), gathers other players from hard-hit schools and builds a team actually ...
Style:
touching, emotional, uplifting, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, sport team, rivalry, high school, basketball coach, human spirit, athlete and trainer, starting over, contests and competitions, cheerleader, society, hopes ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA, Mexico
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico who become the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, disturbing, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
sport, baseball, youth, rise to the top, ambition, against the odds, coming of age, contests and competitions, underdog, hopes, young heroes, rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, year 1957
Place:
mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
50 Cent stars as gifted college running back Deon in this touching drama. Deon's world turns upside down when an unexpected crisis jeopardizes his professional ambitions -- and causes him to look at himself and his life in a new way.
Style:
emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
american football, sport, terminal illness, athlete's life, human spirit, bittersweet, life is a bitch, hopes, ambition, sexual content, black, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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%
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Movies like The Blind Side
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
In 1980, the United States Ice Hockey team's coach, Herb Brooks, put a ragtag squad of college kids up against the legendary juggernaut from the Soviet Union at the Olympic Games. Despite the long odds, Team USA carried the pride of a nation ...
Style:
touching, factual, uplifting, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot:
ice hockey, sport, olympics, underdog, mentor, disney, human spirit, coach, sport team, grudge, contests and competitions, athlete's life ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s, year 1980
Place:
usa, new jersey, boston, canada, milwaukee wisconsin ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
At Fallbrook Middle School, the annual student-elected Teacher of the Year award is held. And every year for the last 43 years Norman Warner or most fondly called Stormin' Norman Warner has won the award. Now that he has died, the burden of ...
Style:
touching, humorous, feel good, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
school, teacher, rivalry, goofy hero, small town life, high school life, friends, youth, father son relationship, contests and competitions, rivals, high school teacher ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
50%
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, sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
ice hockey, skating, figure skating, sport, rivalry, talent, disney, follow your dream, athlete's life, ambition, teenage life, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A teenage drifter finds an opportunity to turn his life around when he joins a high-school football program with a hard-nosed coach.
Style:
serious, realistic, feel good, touching, sincere
Plot:
american football, high school, small town, human spirit, athlete's life, leadership, teenage life, against the odds, lifestyle, sport, society, rivalry ...
Place:
alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
True story of Kent Stock, who in the early 90's, gives up a job and ditches his wedding plans to take over as head coach as the Norway High School baseball team. Kent must win over his players and convince them and himself that he can fill ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
baseball, sport, coach, sport team, small town, ambition, against the odds, one last chance, hopes, athlete's life, youth, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas, Jim's team makes a deal with him: if ...
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, feel good, touching, uplifting ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, girls' night, preschoolers
Plot:
baseball, sport, father son relationship, high school, underdog, human spirit, teacher, rags to riches, following a dream, family relations, fight, baseball coach ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
texas, austin texas, latin america, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
basketball, sport, small town, hopes, ambition, prodigy, rivalry, underdog, contests and competitions, youth, against the odds, sport team ...
Time:
60s
Place:
oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
american football, sport, small town, teenage life, ambition, athlete's life, friendship, sport team, hopes, youth, love and romance, human nature ...
Place:
usa, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe handicapped life or bravely return to the life he once knew and the sport he still loves.
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, serious, realistic, motivational ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
blindness, american football, disability, sport, high school football, high school, human spirit, friendship, athlete's life, ambition, self pity, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A losing coach with an underdog football team faces their giants of fear and failure on and off the field to surprising results.
Style:
inspirational, feel good, touching, sentimental, christian film ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, boys' night, kids, chick flick
Plot:
underdog, christian, football, american football, sport, faith, religious, high school football, human spirit, athlete and trainer, christianity, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When an 11 year old boy gets cut from his Little League baseball team, he sets out to form his own team.
Style:
humorous, touching, sentimental, feel good, non-linear ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
coach, ambition, follow your dream, against the odds, friendship, sport team, sport, human spirit, athlete's life, society, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rick Penning lives life just like he plays rugby; fast, hard-hitting and intense. When life on the edge lands him in jail, prison ward Marcus Tate offers him a chance to get back in the game by playing for his rival, Highland Rugby. Reluctantly Rick ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, disturbing, rough ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
rugby, coach, dedicated educator, juvenile delinquency, sport, father son relationship, human spirit, ambition, redemption, starting over, teenage life, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A native-American lacrosse team makes its way through a prep school league tournament.
Style:
uplifting, exciting, feel good, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
native american, lacrosse, sport, high school, contests and competitions, hopes, ambition, human spirit, rivalry, social relations, against the odds, preparatory school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
THE WINNING SEASON tells the story of a legendary baseball player's struggle to choose between the love of his life and his love of the game. In the film, 12 year-old baseball fanatic Joe Soshack finds a mint condition Honus Wagner baseball ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, touching
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
time travel, follow your dream, family life, hopes, changing the past or future, sport, boy, baseball, youth, private vs public, power relations, friends ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Reggie White stars as Reggie Knox, a pro football player who retires, frustrated because he hasn't won a championship. Knox begins coaching a Portland, Ore., high school football program, where he befriends a troubled student. Reggie fights ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
american football, black man, family relations, gang, school, high school, power relations, religions or cults, social relations, society, ambition, sport ...
Time:
90s
Place:
portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Talent can only get you so far. For golfer Luke Chisholm, that turns out to be Utopia, Texas -- where he's left stranded after blowing his pro debut.
Style:
sincere, uplifting, captivating, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
golf, wise man, christian, human spirit, teaching the ways of the world, ambition, introspection, sport, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, hopes, athlete's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Tom Berenger leads an outstanding cast in this bone-crunching dramatization of legendary college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's debut at Texas A&M in the summer of 1954. The often unnerving story finds Bryant ducking the ...
Style:
tense, serious, sincere, captivating, realistic
Plot:
american football, sport, discrimination, contests and competitions, hopes, against the odds, teachers and students, tough heroes, human spirit, college, underdog, university ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, alabama, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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, feel good, humorous, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
bowling, youth, ambition, friendship, disney, sport team, rivalry, misfit, unlikely partners, contests and competitions, social differences, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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, college, coach, young lovers, ambition, follow your dream, sport, youth, coming of age, athlete and trainer, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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