Movies like Wildcats

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Wildcats (1986)
 6.0
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Wildcats (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite snickers from fellow staff members and her former husband.
Style: feel good, light, inspirational, entertaining, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, sexy, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: american football, football, coach, high school football, high school, rivalry, sport team, athlete and trainer, ambition, mother daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, custody battle, youth, contests and competitions, college life, against the odds, teacher, underdog, fish out of water, college, school, happy ending, football team, baseball, hip hop ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago, new jersey
Keyword: sport, football movie, americana, gangsters, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and semi serious films with plots about ambition, sport team, rivalry, contests and competitions, underdog, athlete and trainer and youth mostly in Comedy, Sport and Drama genres. Some movies like Wildcats: Necessary Roughness (1991), Bring It On: All or Nothing (2006), Bring It On: In It to Win It (2007), Ladybugs (1992), Stick It (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Necessary Roughness (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When the Texas Southern Armadillos football team is disqualified for cheating and poor grades, the University is forced to pick from a team that actually goes to school. Will they even win a single game?
Style: entertaining, inspirational, light, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, manly, kids, boys' night
Plot: american football, underdog, football team, sport team, college, football, happy ending, transformation, human spirit, rivalry, hopes, against the odds ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: texas, usa, austin texas
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100%
Bring It On: All or Nothing (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A transfer student at a rough high school tries joining the cheer-leading squad and finds that she not only has to face off against the head cheerleader, but also against her former school in preparation for a cheer-off competition.
Style: teen, light, entertaining, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, cheerleader, cheerleading, dancing, high school life, hip hop, school, friendship, dance, teenage girl, sport team, teenager ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bring It On: In It to Win It (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fourth 'Bring It On' movie is set at a cheerleader camp in Florida with a 'West Side Story' musical feel has the female captain of the West Side Sharks meeting and romancing a male member of the East Coast Jets amid their ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, teen ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: cheerleader, cheerleading, hottie, dancing, college, dance, teenager, rivalry, athlete and trainer, underdog, contests and competitions, teenage life ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 10K
Ladybugs (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: To climb the corporate ladder to success, a guy agrees to coach the company's all girl soccer team with the help of his secret weapon: his fiancee's son.
Style: humorous, feel good, sentimental, uplifting, offbeat ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: cross dressing, soccer, football, teenager, childhood, youth, farce, milf, women's football (soccer), american football, bike, underdog ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 6.4
 30K
Stick It (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Haley is a naturally gifted athlete but, with her social behavior, the teen seems intent on squandering her abilities. After a final brush with the law, a judge sentences her to an elite gymnastics academy run by a legendary, hard-nosed coach. Once ...
Style: feel good, teen, inspirational, funny, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: gymnastics, teenager, rebelliousness, athlete and trainer, rivalry, gymnast, friends, contests and competitions, high school, competition, fighting the system, adolescence ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: austin texas, texas, usa, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Major League: Back to the Minors (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: At the behest of Roger Dorn -- the Minnesota Twins' silver-tongued new owner -- washed-up minor league hurler Gus Cantrell steps up to the plate to take over as skipper of the club's hapless farm team. But little does he know that Dorn has ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: baseball, underdog, major league, racing, sport competition, contest, competition, tournament, sport team, rivalry, training, career ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: minnesota, usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Johnny Be Good (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college ...
Style: independent film, teen sex comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: american football, football, brat pack, cheerleader, college, high school, underdog, coming of age, teenager, revenge, student athlete, love ...
Time: 80s, future
Place: texas, alabama, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Longshots (2008)
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, humorous, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: american football, human spirit, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, battle of the sexes, football, rivalry, youth, underdog, gender, black, hip hop ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
A League of Their Own (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey (Garry Marshall). Competitive sisters Dottie ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, sweet, witty ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: baseball, world war two, sister sister relationship, friendship, female friendship, female athlete, alcoholic, feminist, female protagonist, sibling rivalry, underdog, coach ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, 20th century, 90s
Place: oregon, chicago, indiana, usa, midwest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Replacements (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty ...
Style: feel good, humorous, inspirational, intense, realistic ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: american football, underdog, football, cheerleading, transformation, adaptation, hopes, rivalry, contests and competitions, against the odds, athlete and trainer, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, y2k, 80s, 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Winning Season (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A comedy centered on a has-been coach who is given a shot at redemption when he's asked to run his local high school's girls basketball team
Style: humorous, sincere, inspirational, light, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: basketball, coach, high school, contests and competitions, ex athlete, youth, misfit, sport team, teenage life, ambition, hopes, friends ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.7
 646
Coach (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An Olympic Gold medalist is hired to coach the boys basketball team. But when Coach Randy Rawlings arrives, the school's sexist principal discovers he hired a woman. Blocked from firing her due to discrimination laws, he tries to make sure the ...
Style: grindhouse, sex comedy, independent film, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, love, school, female athlete, sexism, partner, social relations, sport team, power relations, dedicated educator, prodigy, society ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.3
 12K
The Comebacks (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A comedy that spoofs the inspirational sports movies, The Comebacks tells the story of an out-of-luck coach, Lambeau Fields, who takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process, this ...
Style: parody, humorous, spoof, melancholic, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: baseball, american football, football, coach, rivalry, college, social relations, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, against the odds, athlete's life, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 31K
Little Giants (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When Danny O'Shea's daughter is cut from the Peewee football team just for being a girl, he decides to form his own team, composed of other ragtag players who were also cut. Can his team really learn enough to beat the elite team, coached ...
Style: feel good, slapstick comedy, romantic comedy, funny, epic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: american football, underdog, football, cheerleader, childhood, coach, sexism, brother brother relationship, father daughter relationship, sibling rivalry, wager, single father ...
Time: 90s
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Division III: Football's Finest (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This ensemble comedy follows the Pullham University Bluecocks, a small liberal arts college with a Division III football program (the lowest division in the NCAA). When the head coach unexpectedly dies, the future of the flailing football program is ...
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: american football, cheerleader, football, fight, sport team, power relations, contests and competitions, social relations, athlete and trainer, against the odds, championship, sportscaster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 1K
Paper Lion (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Sportswriter George Plimpton poses as a rookie quarterback for the Detroit Lions for a "Sports Illustrated" article.
Style: slapstick, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot: american football, writers, football, sport team, power relations, underdog, hopes, human spirit, ego clash, ambition, lifestyle, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 60s
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 11K
Eddie (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, "Wild Bill" Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations ...
Style: inspirational, light, entertaining, feel good, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: basketball, female protagonist, basketball coach, life philosophy, follow your dream, hopes, friendship, ambition, rivalry, against the odds, lifestyle, fish out of water ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Best of Times (1986)
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, boys' night, teens
Plot: american football, football, high school sports, football team, high school football, sport team, small town, partner, power relations, social relations, friends, haunted by the past ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An overenthusiastic high-school maintenance man attempts to lead an unlikely group of misfits to the Nebraska state tennis championship in Balls Out: The Gary Houseman Story? director Danny Leiner's underdog sports comedy. American Pie star ...
Style: funny, humorous, sexy, satirical, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: tennis, male nudity, teacher, mentor, stereotypes, athlete and trainer, ambition, rivalry, misfit, youth, lifestyle, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
Bring It On: Fight to the Finish (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Christina Milian stars as sassy cheer captain Lina Cruz, whose world is turned upside-down when her family moves from the urban streets of East Los Angeles to the sunny beach town of Malibu. At her new school, Lina clashes with Avery, the ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot: cheerleader, cheerleading, teenage love, interracial couple, high school, youth, lifestyle, high school hunk, sport team, love and romance, teenage life, rivalry ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, malibu california, florida, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 49K
Varsity Blues (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion, 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night. When star quarterback Lance Harbor suffers an injury, the Coyotes are forced to regroup ...
Style: teen sex comedy, entertaining, inspirational, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: football, american football, coming of age, small town, cheerleader, teenager, high school, stripper, mentor, stereotypes, rivalry, ambition ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
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Home Team (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two years after a Super Bowl win when NFL head coach Sean Payton is suspended, he goes back to his hometown and finds himself reconnecting with his 12-year-old son by coaching his Pop Warner football team.
Style: satirical, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, funny ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: american football, american football player, sport team, hometown, coach, father son relationship, team, football, life, youth, athlete and trainer, soccer coach ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, year 2012
Place: new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Hot Flashes (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school champs, challenge the current high school girls’ state champs to raise money for breast cancer prevention. Sparks fly as the women go to comic extremes to ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, funny ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: basketball, breast cancer, rivalry, contests and competitions, against the odds, friendship, cheerleader, strong female presence, sport team, underdog, ambition, menopause ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austin texas, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 177K
The Waterboy (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher's hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone-crushing power might vault his team into the playoffs.
Style: parody, funny, humorous, hilarious, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, manly, girls' night
Plot: football, bullying, college, social outcast, underdog, american football, farce, rags to riches, mentor, ridicule, dumb, foul language ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: louisiana, usa, new orleans, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 46K
Fired Up! (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 2 Guys. 300 Girls. You Do the Math. The two most popular guys in high school decide to ditch football camp for cheerleader camp. For the girls and for the glory.
Style: sex comedy, teen, light, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: cheerleading, cheerleader, high school, fall in love, teenager, football, college, youth, love and romance, bare breasts, erotica, rivalry ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With Blue Mountain State football star Thad Castle recently signing a multi-million dollar NFL contract, his teammates and college life seem like a distant memory. However, when a new school dean threatens to clean up the BMS image by auctioning off ...
Style: sex comedy, funny, feel good, not serious, humorous ...
Plot: american football, college, party, male pubic hair, sport team, youth, athlete's life, disorder, ambition, abuse, university, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
 6.1
 861
Fast Break (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along some players, who are a bit odd but good. Like Swish who unknown to the rest of the team is a girl. ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, student athlete, transsexual, teenager, culture clash, college, stoner, sport team, disorder, power relations, youth, ambition ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: nevada, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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