Movies like School of Life 2005

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School of Life (2005)
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School of Life (2005)
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 carrying the legacy falls into the hands of Matt Warner, the son of the late Norman Warner who has always lived in the shadow of his father.
Style: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sincere, captivating, entertaining, funny, realistic, contemplative
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: school, teacher, goofy hero, small town life, high school life, friends, youth, father son relationship, contests and competitions, rivals, high school teacher, humour, society, sport team, friendship, family relations, parents and children, teenage life, high school, hopes, uninhibited rivalry, education, teaching, game, mentor protege relationship ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 21st century, contemporary
Keyword: sport

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, realistic and semi serious films with plots about youth, friends, ambition, rivalry, family relations, friendship and teenage life mostly in Family, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like School of Life: Alley Cats Strike (2000), Never Too Young to Dream (2001), Going for Gold (2018), Max Keeble's Big Move (2001), Safe at Home! (1962). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Alley Cats Strike (2000)
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, humorous, feel good, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: bowling, youth, ambition, friendship, contests and competitions, misfit, unlikely partners, rivalry, sport team, social differences, disorder, high school ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Never Too Young to Dream (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of kids have a dream: to play a football championship and to win. Their dream is going to be fulfilled by Don Pepe, an old guy with lots of expectations for his kids.
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: football, school, sport team, ambition, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, rivalry, small town, coach, soccer, janitor, old man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, san francisco, latin america, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Going for Gold (2018)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Seventeen year old, Emma joins a high school cheerleading team when she moves to Australia with her dad who is a former Air Force Officer.
Style: captivating, feel good, light, sincere
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: cheerleading, gymnastics, cheerleader, female protagonist, champion, father, father daughter relationship, daughter, friendship, rivalry, gymnast, believe in yourself ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, south australia, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Max Keeble's Big Move (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Max Keeble, the victim of his 7th grade class, plots revenge when he learns he's moving; it backfires when he doesn't move after all.
Style: humorous, touching, entertaining, light, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: childhood, school, underdog, friendship, mischievous children, happy ending, kids and family, teenager, parents and children, family relations, disorder, chaos and mayhem ...
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Safe at Home! (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A Florida boy (Bryan Russell) tells his Little League buddies that his father knows two New York Yankees (Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris).
Style: uplifting, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: baseball, youth, new york yankees, coach, sport team, partner, parents and children, against the odds, school, teenage life, cons and scams, power relations ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.1
 145
Just for Kicks (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Just for Kicks is an American comedy-drama series that aired on the Nickelodeon television network as a part of the channel's TEENick television lineup. The series about a group of girls in a soccer team set in New York City. This series is ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: friendship, teenage life, ambition, social differences, family relations, parents and children, ego clash, feminism, sport team, rivalry, youth, high school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.5
 11K
The Big Green (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a depressed Texas town, British foreign exchange teacher Anna attempts to inject some life into her hopeless kids by introducing them to soccer. They're terrible at first, but Anna and her football-hero assistant whip them into shape. As ...
Style: inspirational, melancholic, light, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, teen drama
Plot: soccer, school, underdog, childhood, youth, athlete and trainer, football, high school life, against the odds, small town life, teachers and students, follow your dream ...
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.9
 766
Lloyd (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A boy learns that confidence and self-esteem are the greatest gifts.
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: pre-teens, kids
Plot: youth, misfit, love and romance, friendship, friends, school, teachers and students, fall in love, mischievous children, hopes, win over, disorder ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Finding Buck McHenry (2000)
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, feel good, sentimental, non-linear ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: coach, friendship, ambition, follow your dream, against the odds, sport team, human spirit, society, lifestyle, athlete's life, hopes, family life ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.1
 14K
Rebound (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An acclaimed college hoops coach is demoted to a junior varsity team after a public meltdown.
Style: entertaining, feel good, touching, funny, happy ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: basketball, college, sport team, youth, underdog, follow your dream, lifestyle, human spirit, against the odds, prodigy, ambition, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Sandlot 2 (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A decade has passed in the small town where the original Sandlot gang banded together during the summer of ’62 to play baseball and battle the Beast. Now comes the sequel, a campy romp back to the dugout where nine new kids descend on the diamond ...
Style: feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot: sport team, youth, baseball, friendship, vengeance, partner, friends, teenage life, ambition, coming of age, buddies, rivalry ...
Time: year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Going to the Mat (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jace Newfield has a problem. Besides being blind and being the new kid at school, his problem is that the kids at his new school thinks he's a jerk. Jace has to find a way to be accepted into his new school. Joining the wrestling team just ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: blindness, disability, blind character, high school, sport team, friendship, teenage life, human spirit, follow your dream, teenage love, athlete and trainer, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: utah, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 3K
Air Bud 3 (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In this second heartwarming and hilarious sequel to the popular favorite, Air Bud masters two new starring roles: soccer (real football) player and fatherhood. Loaded with laughs and cool soccer action, Buddy teams up alongside U.S. women's ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, humorous, touching, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, preschool
Plot: dog, pets, sport team, golden retriever, soccer, ambition, friendship, rivalry, best friend, contests and competitions, family relations, rescue ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.4
 8K
Jump In! (2007)
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, realistic, semi serious, feel good, teen
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: human spirit, friendship, athlete's life, follow your dream, against the odds, ambition, lifestyle, teenage life, teenager, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.8
 1K
Underdogs (2013)
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, ambition, human spirit, athlete and trainer, rivalry, youth, follow your dream ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.7
 660
Kart Racer (2003)
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: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, teenage life, against the odds, athlete's life, ambition, human spirit, lifestyle, follow your dream, parents and children, teaching the ways of the world, rivalry, contests and competitions ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Wondrous Oblivion (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: David Wiseman is eleven years old and mad about cricket. He has all the kit but none of the skill. When a Jamaican family moves in next door the father starts giving cricket lessons to David, and becomes close to David's mother. But this is ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: cricket, youth, friendship, teenage life, society, lifestyle, parents and children, family life, school, bittersweet, coming of age, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.0
 996
Just Peck (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At 104 pounds dripping wet, baby-faced sophomore Michael Peck (age 15) is not exactly the coolest guy at American High. Peck’s teachers make him feel like an idiot, his classmates make him feel like a geek and his home life is just as bad, with ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous, independent film
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: high school, friendship, parents and children, high school life, teenage love, disorder, family relations, ambition, love and romance, youth, lifestyle, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sentimental sequel film finds the Bears, somehow, the little league champions of California. As a result, the team is invited to play a between-games exhibition at the Houston Astrodome with the local champs, the Toros. Kelly Leak, the Bears' ...
Style: family comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Audience: teens
Plot: baseball, childhood, high school, youth, redemption, underdog, sport team, friends, family relations, estrangement, parents and children, against the odds ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: texas, austin texas, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Frankie & Hazel (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Actress JoBeth Williams directed this Showtime family feature starring The Sixth Sense's Mischa Barton for Barbra Streisand's Barwood Films. Barton is Frankie and Ingrid Uribe is Hazel, Frankie's neighbor and best friend. Frankie is ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, youth, ballet, baseball, small town, ambition, follow your dream, family relations, hopes, dancer's life, feminism, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Contest (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Bullied high school student Tommy is suddenly befriended by his chief tormentor, Matt, the school's most popular student and star athlete. Tommy is suspicious, but is forced to accept the awkward friendship in order to enter a cooking contest ...
Style: captivating, feel good, entertaining, light, teen ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: friendship, swimming, school, teenage life, youth, contests and competitions, rivalry, bullying, couples, coming of age, high school, homosexual subtext ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Shredderman Rules (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Nolan Byrd (Devon Werkheiser) is a scrawny and shy 9th grader who, like all the other kids, is bullied by Bubba Bixby (Andrew Caldwell). When their teacher, Mr. Green (Tim Meadows), allows the students to do a computer project, Nolan, who has a ...
Style: humorous, feel good, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: youth, teenage life, cons and scams, prank, save the day, misfit, friendship, family relations, teacher, bullying, high school life, heroes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Eddie's Million Dollar Cook Off (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Eddie Ogden is his pa's pride and joy as well as the Groundhogs team's only asset as baseball talent. Then Eddie discovers a taste and talent for cuisine. Although his brothers Andy and Alex, and Pa as well as classmates enjoy his dishes, ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, scenic
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: baseball, youth, ambition, cooking, family relations, rivalry, buddies, contests and competitions, teenage life, parents and children, father son relationship, food ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Disney's Air Bud (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young boy and a talented stray dog with an amazing basketball playing ability become instant friends. Rebounding from his father's accidental death, 12-year-old Josh Framm moves with his family to the small town of Fernfield, Washington. The ...
Style: inspirational, light, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, chick flick, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot: dog, golden retriever, basketball, animal, pets, friendship, happy ending, unlikely friendships, childhood, small town, human spirit, young heroes ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: washington state, seattle, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Home Run Showdown (2012)
Genre: Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two little league teams take on their coaches' sibling rivalry, and end up doing battle in a place the baseball world never expected: in the outfield of the Home Run Derby.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: baseball, youth, young heroes, ambition, family relations, contests and competitions, rivalry, parents and children, teenage life, coming of age, sport team, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 4.6
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Queen Sized (2008)
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, uplifting, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: high school, rivalry, society, against the odds, best friend, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, hopes, family relations, underdog, prom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.6
 4K
Go Figure (2005)
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, touching, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: figure skating, ice hockey, skating, rivalry, follow your dream, athlete's life, ambition, teenage life, friendship, lifestyle, athlete and trainer, youth ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Perfect Game (2009)
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: baseball, youth, against the odds, ambition, rise to the top, coming of age, young heroes, contests and competitions, underdog, hopes, rivalry, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s, year 1957
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.5
 846
Uncle Nino (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A distant, slightly dysfunctional family is brought closer together when the father's long-estranged Uncle Nino comes from Italy to Chicago for a surprise visit.
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, indie film ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: family gatherings, family life, family relations, fish out of water, parents and children, optimism, couples, society, uncle, youth, family reunited, friendship ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.7
 2K
Best Player (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Chris Sanders and Quincy are both involved in a video game called "Black Hole", and they both want to win the tournament with a $175,500 prize. Quincy then tries to sabotage Chris, but it all goes wrong, because Chris' mom Tracy ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, scenic, gaming
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: lifestyle, friendship, teenage life, tournament, rivalry, youth, family relations, parents and children, teenage girl, game, video game, friends ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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