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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, independent film, interesting
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
back in time, american football, small town, high school, high school sports, girlfriend, suicide attempt, coach, championship, sent to the past, teenage life, contests and competitions, dream come true, social relations, small town life, hopes, one more chance, human spirit, athlete and trainer, american dream, rivalry, ambition, unfulfillment, athlete's life, football ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary, 1990s
Place:
usa, iowa, ohio
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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 sentimental films with plots about ambition, hopes, power relations, rivalry, youth, athlete's life and human spirit mostly in Drama, Sport and Family genres. Some movies like Touchback: Friday Night Lights (2004), Underdogs (2013), The Best of Times (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), All Things Fall Apart (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, sincere, intense, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
football, high school, american football, cheerleader, sport team, high school football, underdog, championship, youth, athlete's life, small town, football team ...
Time:
80s, year 2004, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
texas, usa, houston texas, midwest, austin texas ...
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, family friendly, teens
Plot:
american football, cheerleader, high school football, high school, underdog, sport team, athlete and trainer, youth, follow your dream, rivalry, ambition, human spirit ...
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:
laugh out loud, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night
Plot:
american football, football, high school football, football team, high school sports, american football player, sport team, small town, partner, friends, power relations, social relations ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
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:
inspirational, feel good, sweet, sad, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, chick flick
Plot:
baseball, hearing voices, regret, farmer, ghost, farm, small town, time travel, happy ending, doctor, magic realism, father son relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century, 70s
Place:
iowa, minnesota, usa, boston
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:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
american football, terminal illness, athlete's life, human spirit, bittersweet, life is a bitch, hopes, ambition, black, football, racing, special needs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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:
emotional, touching, uplifting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hurricane katrina, high school sports, cheerleader, rivalry, sport team, high school, basketball coach, starting over, contests and competitions, human spirit, athlete and trainer, hopes ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa, louisiana
Similarity:
100%
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:
realistic, feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
american football, human spirit, athlete's life, battle of the sexes, athlete and trainer, football, rivalry, youth, underdog, gender, black, american football player ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
illinois, usa
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:
touching, realistic, serious, disturbing, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
baseball, youth, rise to the top, ambition, against the odds, coming of age, young heroes, rivalry, contests and competitions, hopes, underdog, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s, year 1957
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
100%
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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, hood, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, girls' night
Plot:
american football, juvenile delinquency, athlete and trainer, african american, prison, redemption, underdog, youth, destiny, competition, football, life philosophy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, new jersey
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, goofy hero, teacher, friends, small town life, high school life, youth, father son relationship, contests and competitions, rivals, high school teacher, family relations ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Julie Taylor has a problem how to cope with a pending divorce, find meaningful employment, live with her mother's constant advice and raise her two children. In their small rural town it isn't so much what people say as what they believe. ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, captivating, sincere, light ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
youth, parents and children, supernatural, social relations, family relations, small town, miraculous event, small town life, parallel world, girl, spirituality, parents separation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
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:
independent film, serious, realistic, uplifting
Plot:
running, olympics, track and field, radiation, power relations, disability, unfulfillment, athlete's life, human spirit, hopes, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
barcelona, seoul
Similarity:
100%
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, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
figure skating, ice hockey, skating, talent, rivalry, hockey, ambition, follow your dream, athlete's life, teenage life, friendship, lifestyle ...
Time:
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:
captivating, sincere, uplifting, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
american football, rise to the top, contests and competitions, football, athlete and trainer, ambition, small town, high school sports, youth, coach, high school football, sport team ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, oakland california
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 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:
touching, feel good, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
american football, high school, small town, teenage life, against the odds, leadership, human spirit, athlete's life, ambition, society, youth, hopes ...
Place:
alabama, usa
Similarity:
44%
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, feel good, inspirational, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, girls' night, preschool ...
Plot:
baseball, underdog, baseball coach, father son relationship, high school, hopes, major league, baseball player, following a dream, rags to riches, teacher, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, year 2002, 80s, 90s
Place:
texas, midwest, austin texas, usa, orlando florida ...
Similarity:
50%
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, touching, sincere, historical drama ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
baseball, hopes, high school sports, coach, sport team, small town, ambition, against the odds, one last chance, youth, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2007, 90s
Place:
iowa, usa
Similarity:
40%
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, spiritual
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
hopes, athlete and trainer, small town, youth, underdog, ambition, rivalry, contests and competitions, prodigy, against the odds, dedicated educator, human spirit ...
Time:
60s, year 2006
Place:
oklahoma, usa
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama, 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, christian film, touching, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot:
christian, religious, faith, football, underdog, american football, football team, high school football, human spirit, athlete and trainer, christianity, ambition ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
georgia, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
37%
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, period piece, uplifting ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
baseball, time travel, follow your dream, youth, family life, hopes, changing the past or future, rivalry, boy, nostalgia, coming of age, travel ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Similarity:
35%
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:
sentimental, serious, realistic, christian film, motivational ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
blindness, american football, high school football, high school, sport team, student athlete, friendship, self pity, athlete's life, disability, american football player, football ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kentucky, usa
Similarity:
35%
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:
independent film, uplifting, serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
american football, football, black man, family relations, gang, school, high school, social relations, power relations, religions or cults, rivalry, human spirit ...
Time:
90s
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
34%
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:
serious, touching, sentimental, sincere, indie film ...
Plot:
american football, small town, coming of age, homoerotic friendship, cheerleader, football, friendship, ambition, athlete's life, teenage life, hopes, love and romance ...
Place:
montana, usa
Similarity:
34%
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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:
touching, sentimental, humorous, feel good, non-linear ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
coach, follow your dream, ambition, against the odds, friendship, sport team, athlete's life, human spirit, hopes, society, lifestyle, family life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
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:
serious, tense, captivating, realistic, sincere
Plot:
american football, teachers and students, against the odds, hopes, discrimination, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, ambition, underdog, youth, tough heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, alabama, texas
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
American football coach Chuck Dichter has worked wonders with the Buffalo Bills, and is even confident to crown his career with a Super Bowl victory, but before the play-offs an oyster food-poisoning wipes out his first team for a month. Dan Heller, ...
Style:
humorous, serious, touching, realistic, uplifting
Plot:
american football, underdog, lifestyle, human spirit, ambition, athlete's life, against the odds, hopes, sport team, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
33%
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:
inspirational, realistic, serious, disturbing, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, manly, teen drama
Plot:
rugby, dedicated educator, juvenile delinquency, coach, father son relationship, athlete and trainer, redemption, human spirit, starting over, ambition, teenage life, motivation ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A native-American lacrosse team makes its way through a prep school league tournament.
Style:
feel good, exciting, uplifting, sincere, independent film ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
native american, lacrosse, hopes, high school, contests and competitions, ambition, rivalry, human spirit, social relations, against the odds, native, indians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, inspirational, talky, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
american football, high school, football, college, cheerleader, small town, coming of age, high school football, student athlete, friendship, coach, male pubic hair ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, future
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, north america, new jersey ...
Similarity:
32%
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, inspirational, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
golf, wise man, christian, human spirit, teaching the ways of the world, athlete and trainer, ambition, introspection, hopes, athlete's life, lifestyle, small town ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
32%
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