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Stealing Home (1988)
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Billy Wyatt (Harmon), a former high school and minor-league baseball baseball player receives a telephone call from his mother revealing that his former child-sitter, and later in his teens, his first love, Katie Chandler (Foster), has died. Wyatt returns home to deal with this tragedy reminescing over his childhood growing up with his father, Katie and best friend Alan Appleby.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, sincere, serious, realistic, crying, touching, fairy tale, light, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, coming of age, love, memory, nostalgia, friendship, suicide, first love, summer, teenage girl, friendship between men, teenage boy, flashback, regret, homecoming, older woman younger man sex, reminiscence, life, death of father, aging, bittersweet, baseball coach, teenage sex, sex scene, lust ...
Time:
80s, 1950s, 60s, 50s, 1960s
Place:
new jersey, philadelphia
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Most similar movies to Stealing Home
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and serious films with plots about coming of age, love and romance, youth, friendship, teenager, family relations and teenage life mostly in Drama, Romance and Sport genres. Some movies like Stealing Home: The Man in the Moon (1991), Summer of '42 (1971), The Journey of Jared Price (2000), The Slaughter Rule (2002), The Year My Voice Broke (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and Court meet first and have a flirtatious rapport -- but when he meets Maureen, he falls hard and they ...
Style:
emotional, period piece, cute, romantic, tear jerker ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, corporal punishment, skinny dipping, sister sister relationship, sibling relationship, first love, childhood, small town, unrequited love, female nudity, sisters, love ...
Time:
year 1957, 50s, 1950s, year 1991, 20th century
Place:
southern usa, usa, louisiana, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's main worries are the when and how of ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, sex, age difference, older woman younger man relationship, summer vacation, older woman younger man, beach house, teenager, war widow, love story, teen angst ...
Time:
1940s, year 1971, 20th century, year 1942, 60s ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
"The Journey of Jared Price" is a gay-themed coming-of-age 2000 film written, produced and directed by Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black. Black won the Oscar award for Best Original Screenplay for "Milk". The Journey of ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, emotional, erotic ...
Plot:
gay teenager, lgbtq, gay, gay interest, making love, gay couple, fall in love, self discovery, couple relations, youth, couples, teenage life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, southern california, santa monica california
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100%
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
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Coming-of age feature, set in a New South Wales country town in the 1960s, about a 15 year-old boy. It follows his loves and how he copes with life's problems such as death and departure.
Style:
sad, independent film, period piece, sex comedy, retro ...
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date night, teens
Plot:
coming of age, childhood, small town, first love, relationships, friendship, pregnant teenager, love triangle, forbidden love, love, discrimination, bittersweet ...
Time:
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Place:
australia, new south wales
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23%
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:
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."
Style:
teen, touching, sincere, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, youth, couples, teenage love, first love, teenage life, love, teenage girl, family relations, high school student, classmate ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, philadelphia, key west florida, new jersey, california
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured to show that he can fight if challenged during his stay in a Canadian minor hockey town. His on-ice activities are complicated by his relationship ...
Style:
exciting, sexual, spiritual, epic, sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
ice hockey, hockey, 17 year old, rivalry, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, revenge, farm, fistfight, bully, prank, punched in the face ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada, ontario canada, new york state, argentina, alaska ...
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
'Circle Of Friends' is set in 1950's Ireland. The movie focuses on Benny Hogan and her best friend, Eve Malone. The story centers around Benny and Eve as they enter student life at University College, Dublin. Here Benny and Eve ...
Style:
emotional, period piece, sentimental, realistic, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, small town, pregnancy, college, class differences, college life, student, catholic, voice over narration, sexual awakening, heartbreak ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957, year 1949
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old girl who idolizes her troubled sixteen-year-old neighbor.
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, teenage pregnancy, bowling, young couple, summer, bullying, teenager, child protagonist, star crossed lovers, grief, girl, teen angst ...
Time:
year 1961, year 1992, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After fifteen years of traveling around the world Gussie (Spacek), a famous photographer, returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up
Style:
sentimental, contemplative, talky, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
sailing, small town, destiny, high school, bittersweet, love, sea voyage, photojournalism, fall in love, family relations, photojournalist, couples ...
Time:
year 1986, future, 80s, 70s
Place:
maryland, new jersey, san francisco
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Friends Gary Black (Nathan Phillips) and Dumby Red (Luke Carroll) are on the same soccer team in their coastal Australian town. But to local racists, they're a world apart: Gary is white and Dumby is an Aborigine. This becomes an issue when one ...
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious ...
Plot:
racism, friendship, family relations, interracial relations, small town, teenage life, youth, rivalry, society, lifestyle, hopes, ambition ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
australia, south australia
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Two young kids fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for the parents of Jade. The parents try to stop them from seeing each other. But when this doesn't work, David burns down the house and is sent away. This ...
Style:
erotic, intense, sexual, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, forbidden love, young lovers, first love, mental institution, arson, obsession, sex scene, mental illness, love, love story, voyeur ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, 70s
Place:
chicago, new york
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A rich college kid is taught a lesson after a joy ride ends up destroying a country restaurant.
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, romantic, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
cancer, fall in love, teenage love, rich and poor, small town, terminal illness, love story, teenage life, social differences, youth, couples, class differences ...
Time:
90s
Place:
minnesota, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Four young people navigate the suburban wonderland of metro-Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last weekend of summer.
Style:
sexy, realistic, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
coming of age, youth, friendship, looking for love, teenage love, hopes, suburban life, love and romance, teenage life, lifestyle, society, summer ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
detroit, usa
Similarity:
25%
38K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Natalie (Elisabeth Harnois) is high school royalty, but her queen bee status falls apart when she falls for the new guy at school. Although Keith (Jesse McCartney) ignores her at first, they soon become friends -- even though Natalie suspects that ...
Style:
sad, psychological, romantic, touching, serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, terminal illness, cancer, love, teenage love, youth, teenager, opposites attract, first love, love story, teen romance, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Dave, a high school senior, spends most of his time pining away over a girl he can’t have. Aubrey, a junior with artistic aspirations, has a hot boyfriend who doesn’t quite understand her or seem to care. Although they go to different schools, ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, sincere, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, youth, love, teenager, teenage love, love and romance, first love, friendship, virginity, teenage girl, first sex, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, new jersey, california
Similarity:
25%
2K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Cliff has just turned 18 and his little sister has a gift for him: booze, a joint, a subway token and the command to have sex. Heading out on the town, Cliff finds friendship -- and more -- in the person of a young hustler named Butch. But ...
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, sentimental, sexual ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, gay teenager, gay, male rape, self discovery, fall in love, friendship, innocence lost, lgbt, lifestyle, teenage life, youth ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years.
Style:
sentimental, touching, inspirational, realistic, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
baseball, love story, baseball coach, loneliness, unlikely friendships, storytelling, looking for love, love and romance, athlete's life, training, hopes, major league ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
usa, detroit, new york, london, bronx new york city ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, teenager, fall in love, teenage love, love story, youth, teenage life, first love, dealing with death, illness, adolescence ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
amsterdam, usa, pittsburgh, ethiopia, indiana ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The film follows Victor, a Lower East Side teenager, as he deals with his eccentric family, including his strict grandmother, his bratty sister, and a younger brother who completely idolizes him. Along the way he tries to win the affections of Judy, ...
Style:
touching, cynical, stylized, harsh, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
couples, coming of age, sexual relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, relationships, teenage love, love story, loneliness, family relations, youth, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, dominican republic, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. Along the way, the two renew their bond, and she catches the eye of a young player-turned-scout.
Style:
inspirational, entertaining, touching, melancholic, light ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
baseball, father daughter relationship, blind character, aging, career, parents and children, love and romance, happy ending, lawyer, kids and family, pitcher, good versus evil ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, atlanta georgia, georgia, california ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An aging, disillusioned alcoholic (Nick Nolte) gets a younger friend (Trevor Morgan) and wants him to pose as his son at a school reunion.
Style:
sentimental, serious, touching, realistic
Plot:
teenage life, friendship, parents and children, sport team, family relations, high school, high school life, youth, father son relationship, baseball, alcoholic, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
year 2006
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
David Sinclair seems to have everything going for him: he's smart, musically talented, and very successful. To top off his senior year in high school, his band is trying to get a recording session. Therefore, David's suicide leaves ...
Style:
cult classic, realistic, touching, emotional, retro ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, suicide, coming of age, grief, teenager, loss, drinking, friendship, death, runaway, mental illness, education ...
Time:
80s, year 2016, 70s
Place:
oregon, portland oregon, california, new jersey
Similarity:
24%
4K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fed up with boarding school and frustrated with the way others have planned his life, John Baker Jr. wants a change -- anything to shake up his staid routine. The moment arrives when he stumbles upon a woman, Patty Vare, unconscious in a field. ...
Style:
enigmatic, melancholic, romantic, intense, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
amnesia, teenage love, boarding school, teenager, police investigation, teenage life, friendship, lifestyle, rescue, school, high school, secret ...
Time:
year 1996, y2k, 90s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their lives go on there is tension and tears which culminate in a strong yet fragile friendship between the ...
Style:
sexual, touching, sincere, erotic, homoerotic ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, lgbtq, gay interest, gay relationship, aids, making love, glbt, loneliness, self discovery, male male relationship, friendship between men ...
Time:
80s, year 2004, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
ohio, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Falling Like This showcases compelling performances by two young actors, Brian Vaughan and Megan Wilson. Writer/Director Dani Minnick has crafted a compassionate examination of the ragged edge of suburban life as characterized by Boyd, a charming, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, juvenile delinquent, unlikely couple, teenage life, couples, young lovers, juvenile delinquency, love and romance, on the run, youth, friendship, fall in love ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Louisiana football star Gavin Grey had it all. He was an All-American champion who married his high-school sweetheart, homecoming queen Babs Rogers, and who was a hero to his hometown. Yet after a failed professional career, Gavin realizes that fame ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, psychological, gloomy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
american football, football, friendship, ambition, midlife crisis, athlete's life, family problems, sorority, marriage, self discovery, student athlete, death ...
Time:
80s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
louisiana, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
We’re in the middle of a heat-wave in Fenland England. Goob Taylor has spent each of his sixteen summers helping Mum run the transport cafe and harvest the surrounding beet fields. When Mum shacks up with swarthy stock-car supremo and ladies’ ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage boy, family relations, teenage love, youth, small town, parents and children, teenager, boy, hot guys, friendship, summer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team
Style:
realistic, emotional, christian film, captivating, motivational ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
baseball, homecoming, rehabilitation, addiction, christian, support group, sport team, life is a bitch, hopes, redemption, starting over, athlete's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oklahoma city, oklahoma
Similarity:
23%
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