Movies like Race the Sun
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Race the Sun (1996)
4K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A bunch of high school misfits in Hawaii, introduced by their new teacher, attend a science fair in which they draw up inspiration to build their own solar car and win a trip to compete in the 1990 World Solar Challenge in Australia.
Style:
light, entertaining, feel good, exciting, serious, realistic, parody, inspirational, romantic, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
underdog, high school, rivalry, racing, teenage girl, high school student, teenage boy, teacher student relationship, teen angst, high school teacher, car racing, chase, youth, human spirit, against the odds, dedicated educator, self discovery, teenage life, competition, teacher, kids and family, auto racing, misfit, teachers and students, car ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, year 1990, 1990s
Place:
hawaii, australia, usa, adelaide south australia, israel
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Most similar movies to Race the Sun
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, feel good and humorous films with plots about youth, school, teenage life, ambition, high school, power relations and high school life mostly in Drama, Comedy and Sport genres. Some movies like Race the Sun: Chalk (2006), Cheaters (2000), Out of It (1969), Airborne (1993), Matchups (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
1K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Life in the trenches of that most honorable and frustrating profession...teaching. It's the start of a memorable new year at Harrison High. The self-conscious Mr. Stroope is convinced that his time has come - this year he will be furnished with ...
Style:
mockumentary, humorous, semi documentary, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
teacher, high school, teachers and students, hardcase students, power relations, lifestyle, ambition, youth, education, rivalry, teaching, high school teacher ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, clever, offbeat
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
teachers and students, high school, lifestyle, teenage life, social differences, dedicated educator, youth, contests and competitions, rivalry, society, fraud, teacher ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
100%
204
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An introverted nerd and a dumb, violent jock vie for the attentions of a cheerleader.
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
rivalry, cheerleader, high school football, coming of age, school, beach, partner, performer's life, power relations, sport team, friends, social relations ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mitchell Goosen is sixteen/seventeen year old kid from California who loves to surf and roller blade. Yet, his parents, who are two zoologists were given a grant to work in Australia. The only problem was: Mitchell couldn't go with them. So, he ...
Style:
epic, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
rollerblading, double date, teenager, surfing, rivalry, harassment, high school, cousin cousin relationship, surfer, bully, philosophy, confrontation ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
california, ohio, cincinnati ohio, columbus ohio, australia ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ian Willams -- who was born blind in one eye -- grew up undaunted to become an elite college basketball player. But his dream of winning a national championship and turning pro was sidetracked when a tragic accident left him completely blind. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, independent film
Plot:
blindness, prodigy, against the odds, disability, ambition, dedicated educator, human spirit, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, hopes, youth, athlete's life ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Several players from different backgrounds try to cope with the pressures of playing football at a major university. Each deals with the pressure differently, some turn to drinking, others to drugs, and some to studying.
Style:
talky, intense, exciting, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
american football, football, football team, underdog, college football, justice, college life, lone hero, sport team, lifestyle, hopes, love triangle ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 80s
Place:
usa, texas, new jersey, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A suburban mom relives her season with the soccer obsessed sports parents whose outrageous "win at all costs" behavior spirals out of control.
Style:
humorous, light, entertaining, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
soccer, obsession, family relations, eccentric family, sport team, youth, parents and children, rivalry, satire, underdog, fish out of water, suburbs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After taking a job managing a little league team, a homeless man inspires the kids to reach for it all and they inspire him to reclaim his life.
Style:
uplifting, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
baseball, youth, baseball coach, memory loss, teenage life, fall in love, parents and children, hollywood, against the odds, adoption, sexual relations, contests and competitions ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
florida
Similarity:
100%
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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:
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:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
This was going to be the first year that Marshal Middle School was not going to have a dance team. All that changes when the new Biology teacher, Ms. Bartlett, agrees to be the coach. Now the girls need to prove that they are ready to compete and ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, teen, uplifting
Audience:
family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
cheerleading, cheerleader, against the odds, dancer's life, school, working class, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, follow your dream, ambition, teenage girl, preteen ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An overweight girl, Maggie Baker, is elected Homecoming queen by the mean girls in the high school.
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
high school, rivalry, society, against the odds, best friend, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, hopes, family relations, underdog, overweight man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south carolina, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Peter Gifford is a likable, dedicated schoolteacher that teaches a senior life skills class. When student Janet Sommers brings up the topic of sex and dating, he asks students to write questions on the topic, and will cover them in the next class. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sexual, psychotronic, sexy
Plot:
teacher, high school, stoner, teenage life, teachers and students, urban ghetto life, looking for sex, school, high school life, society, hardcase students, youth ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A business man decides that he wants to teach school in the inner city and chooses a tough school in the South Bronx. He teaches the children how to play the game of chess, and along the way they learn a lot about life.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, spiritual, uplifting
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
chess, teacher, school teacher, misfit, youth, hardcase students, high school life, juvenile delinquency, elementary school, lifestyle, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, bronx new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An aspiring teacher (Hughley) takes the one job he's offered, a position at a school inside a prison.
Style:
realistic, touching, suspense, captivating, semi serious
Plot:
dedicated educator, prison, idealism, starting over, hardcase students, prison life, rivalry, confined, hopes, rehabilitation, youth, student life ...
Similarity:
100%
932
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Gippi is a coming-of-age story of an ordinary, overweight girl, who, through the course of the film, learns to love herself for exactly who she is. It is also a tale of an underdog, who picks herself up from nothing and finds herself at the top of ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, inspirational, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
coming of age, popularity, underdog, rivalry, teenage life, social misfits, ambition, youth, misfit, social relations, friends, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An alcoholic former horse-trainer perceives in a fifteen-year-old boy a unique gift of horsemanship and makes it possible for the boy to conceive his dream and pursue it.
Style:
realistic, serious, feel good, touching
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse trainer, jockey, friendship, contests and competitions, parents and children, teenage love, self discovery, human spirit, teenage life, against the odds, bullying, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Story revolves around a young boxer, Izzy Daniels, who trains to follow in his father's footsteps by winning the Golden Glove. When his friend, Mary, however, asks him to substitute for a team member in a Double Dutch tournament, the young man ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, teen
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
human spirit, friendship, follow your dream, athlete's life, against the odds, lifestyle, ambition, teenage life, teenager, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young, white teacher is assigned to an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.
Style:
deep, realistic, serious, uplifting, thought provoking ...
Plot:
teacher, racism, school teacher, education, youth, racial discrimination, american south, african american, humanist, teaching, black history, blaxploitation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place:
south carolina, america, usa, southern usa
Similarity:
100%
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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:
touching, inspirational, sentimental, emotional, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, boys' night, kids, girls' night
Plot:
teacher, underdog, mentor, high school, coach, track and field, athlete and trainer, human spirit, football, athlete, dedicated educator, competition ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, palo alto california, usa, new jersey, texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Barry Goldwater Elementary is on the brink of collapse: the lowest test scores in the state, teachers who are either drunk or having sex on school grounds, and a principal who extorts money from parents. It's up to Tom, the down-on-his-luck ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty
Plot:
youth, hardcase students, school, dedicated educator, fighting the system, against the odds, misfit, idealism, society, teenage life, teachers and students, high school life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
14-year-old Watts Davies is estranged from his dad, a former International Karting Federation (IKF) champion. Watts's resolve to race in the upcoming IKF Regional Championships rekindles their relationship as they pursue the dream together.
Style:
humorous, touching, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
youth, against the odds, teenage life, athlete's life, lifestyle, follow your dream, teaching the ways of the world, parents and children, tragic hero, rivalry, contests and competitions, young heroes ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Still mourning the death of her mother a few years back, ALICE McKINLEY finds her life seriously disrupted when her father BEN buys a store and moves her and her older brother LESTER to a new town. In the painful throes of adolescence, Alice has a ...
Style:
realistic, feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, kids, teens
Plot:
female protagonist, bullying, family relations, disorder, teenage life, family life, starting over, coming of age, teachers and students, hopes, children, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples
Style:
feel good, semi serious, realistic, humorous, stylized ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, school, friendship, culture clash, rich and poor, teacher, thoughtful, high school life, village life, teenage life, urban ghetto life, teachers and students ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, 70s
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Mr. T's first starring made-for-TV movie role has him playing a tough and scowling, but softhearted, nightclub bouncer who finds himself involved with a bunch of kids after being conned into taking over a youth center.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
competition, high school life, gymnasium, bouncer, gangster, power relations, urban ghetto, boss and employee, redemption, hopes, life is a bitch, rivalry ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Some students taking driver's ed during the summer. Among the students is Riko, a cocky guy; Chad, a guy from a privileged background, who's terrified to get behind the wheel; Vanessa, who's over protective mom who wouldn't allow ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, driving school, taxi, driver, car crash, stoner, power relations, urban ghetto, society, dedicated educator, lifestyle, youth ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
David Portnoy, a 15-year-old birding fanatic, thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime. So, on the eve of his father's remarriage, he escapes on an epic road trip with his best friends to solidify their place in birding history.
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage life, friendship, obsessive quest, coming of age, teenage boy, road trip, sexual content, escapades, friends, friendship between boys, bird, little boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut, new england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Life of a King is the true story of one man's mission to give inner city kids of Washington DC something he never had - a future. After being incarcerated for eighteen years, Eugene Brown established the Big Chair Chess Club to get kids off the ...
Style:
sincere, rough, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
chess, dedicated educator, hardcase students, ex convict, teenage life, ambition, gain trust, bad attitude, society, contests and competitions, youth, redemption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Mike Lewis leaves L.A. to stay with his grandfather in Colorado for the summer, he hates the old man's cowboy ways. When Mike demands to go home, the old man agrees and saddles up a couple of horses for a six week trip toward California, ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, captivating, independent film
Plot:
grandparent grandchild relationship, self discovery, hopes, youth, family relations, teenage life, male bonding, coming of age, horse riding, male friendship, friendship between men, summer ...
Time:
90s
Place:
colorado, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Pass the Light tells the story of Steve Bellafiore, an 17 year old high school senior who decides to run for Congress in order to protect the faith that he so loves.
Style:
serious, realistic, feel good, christian film, uplifting
Audience:
teens
Plot:
idealism, teenage life, rivalry, against the odds, campaign, youth, parents and children, society, high school, college, teenage girl, coming of age ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A white school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined black high school basketball team and turns them into a winning team.
Style:
hood, humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, high school, hip hop, underdog, high school sports, urban, black, african american, teacher, ghetto, discrimination, education ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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