Movies like The Toughest Man in the World

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The Toughest Man in the World (1984)
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The Toughest Man in the World (1984)
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: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: competition, high school life, bouncer, gymnasium, prison, friendship, youth, addiction, teachers and students, human spirit, life is a bitch, prison life, fighting the system, nightclub, rivalry, society, ambition, starting over, aging, redemption, contests and competitions, innocence lost, underdog, idealism, against the odds ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to The Toughest Man in the World

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about ambition, hopes, underdog, power relations, rivalry, contests and competitions and youth mostly in Drama, Comedy and Sport genres. Some movies like The Toughest Man in the World: Shackles (2005), Chalk (2006), The Man from Left Field (1993), Deal (2008), Matchups (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Shackles (2005)
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, captivating, suspense, semi serious
Plot: dedicated educator, prison, ambition, human spirit, idealism, hardcase students, starting over, prison life, rehabilitation, rivalry, life is a bitch, confined ...
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Chalk (2006)
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, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: teacher, high school, teachers and students, ambition, power relations, youth, hardcase students, lifestyle, education, rivalry, teaching, college ...
Time: year 2006
Place: usa, texas
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62%
The Man from Left Field (1993)
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: semi serious, realistic, uplifting, feel good, emotional ...
Plot: baseball, youth, fall in love, hopes, redemption, contests and competitions, athlete's life, rivalry, single parent, follow your dream, underdog, human spirit ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: florida
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61%
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Deal (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: As an ex-gambler teaches a hot-shot college kid some things about playing cards, he finds himself pulled into the world series of poker, where his protégé is his toughest competition.
Style: realistic, tense, psychological, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: poker, gambling, competition, human spirit, contests and competitions, lifestyle, follow your dream, friendship, underdog, downfall, casino, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2008
Place: las vegas, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Matchups (2003)
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: realistic, serious, touching, independent film
Plot: blindness, prodigy, against the odds, disability, human spirit, dedicated educator, ambition, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, society, rivalry, youth ...
Time: 21st century
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49%
Gym Teacher: The Movie (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Dave Stweie was America's hope for the gold in the 1988 Seoul Games.... until he ran face first into the vault. After Suffering humiliation on a global scale, Dave eventually faded into obscurity and became a gym teacher. A gym teacher with the ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: gym teacher, youth, ambition, sports injury, lifestyle, redemption, athlete's life, contests and competitions, hopes, rivalry, school, family life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Out of It (1969)
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, humorous, sexual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: rivalry, coming of age, school, beach, cheerleader, high school football, performer's life, partner, sport team, friends, power relations, social relations ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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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 ⇓
43%
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Pastor Jones: Heavenly Voices (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Comedy - This entry in director Jean-Claude La Marre's Pastor Jones series sees the beleaguered clergyman coping with a gap in the church budget. When he can't make a payment on one of the church's loans, the pastor fears he may have ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, sincere
Plot: friendship, ambition, rescue, music band, clergy, society, family problems, contests and competitions, hopes, family relations, church, collision ...
Time: future
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42%
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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 ⇓
41%
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Harry's War (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After his aunt dies of a heart attack while fighting the IRS, Harry Johnson decides to take up the cause.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: state affairs, life is a bitch, rivalry, fighting the system, rebellion, legal, politics, ambition, vengeance, society, courtroom, injustice ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
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41%
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Ping Pong (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wings and teaches him how to play the game of ping pong. From there a life long ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, uplifting, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: athlete's life, youth, follow your dream, lifestyle, human spirit, ambition, rivalry, friendship, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, underdog, opponent ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Sports Pages (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dr. Lionel Waddems (Bob Newhart), a golf fanatic. is put on trial for killing his golf partner (Played by Kelsey Grammer). The movie follows the trial in the news and features interviews by people who knew the men. It is based on 2 short stories ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: athlete's life, human spirit, journalism, lifestyle, contests and competitions, nothing goes right, hopes, athlete and trainer, farce, buddies, odd couple, rivalry ...
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40%
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Cheaters (2000)
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: serious, realistic, sincere, clever, offbeat
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: teachers and students, high school, ambition, lifestyle, teenage life, social differences, rivalry, dedicated educator, youth, contests and competitions, society, fraud ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Calvin Marshall (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A college student is determined to become a Major League Baseball star, but finds his true calling instead.
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: baseball, coming of age, college, ambition, follow your dream, self discovery, underdog, youth, athlete's life, hopes, love and romance, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Swimsuit Issue (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A wild bachelor party and an agonizing defeat in floorball awakens Fredrik's passion for male synchronized swimming.
Style: feel good, uplifting, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: friendship, self fulfillment, buddies, ambition, society, life is a bitch, family relations, sport team, youth, physical appearance, athlete and trainer, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
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37%
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Bleacher Bums (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Adapted from a 1979 stage play written by Chicago's Organic Theater Company, BLEACHER BUMS details the exploits of a group of baseball fans as they sit in the bleachers of Lakeview Park watching a game between the hometown Bruins take on the ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: baseball, friends, gambling, lifestyle, against the odds, follow your dream, rivalry, buddies, athlete's life, couple relations, ambition, hopes ...
Place: chicago, usa
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36%
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Highland Park (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A high school faculty lotto pool places its fate in the lucky numbers they've played for ten years after hearing budget cuts have eliminated all their jobs.
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, light, sentimental ...
Plot: lottery, dedicated educator, high school, society, teachers and students, life turned upside down, social relations, disorder, hopes, idealism, gambling, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
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35%
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Entry Level (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After losing his restaurant, chef CLAY MAGUIRE must start his career all over--at the bottom. Pushing forty with no "corporate skill-set", Clay enters the strange world of the Unemployable Interviewees of America. Clay and his fellow ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: restaurant, starting over, unemployment, workplace, love and romance, hopes, society, workplace situations, workplace romance, down on your luck, chef, food ...
Time: 21st century
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35%
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The continuing adventures of the barbers at Calvin's Barbershop. Gina, a stylist at the beauty shop next door, is now trying to cut in on his buisness. Calvin is again struggling to keep his father's shop and traditions alive--this time ...
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, hilarious, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: beauty salon, fighting the system, urban, black, barbershop, friendship, hip hop, family business, workplace romance, workplace, friends, workplace situations ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: chicago, indiana, illinois, usa
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35%
No Pain, No Gain (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The story of a bodybuilder who longs to be respected for his mind. Mike Zorillo, a small town Ohio champion bodybuilder with a genius IQ, journeys to the Mecca of bodybuilding, Los Angeles, determined to beat his nemesis, Jake Steel, with natural ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, semi serious, feel good, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bodybuilding, follow your dream, tough heroes, rivalry, ambition, once promising, lifestyle, redemption, comeback, heroes, contests and competitions, athlete's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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34%
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Race the Sun (1996)
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: entertaining, light, feel good, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: racing, chase, youth, dedicated educator, rivalry, human spirit, against the odds, self discovery, teenage life, teacher, kids and family, auto racing ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, year 1990
Place: hawaii, usa, australia
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34%
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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 ...
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33%
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Crossing the Bridge (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A film about three high school friends who find their happy-go-lucky existence tarnished forever the instant they get embroiled in a drug-running scheme that goes awry. When things start getting messy, they rue the day they agreed to the venture; ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, coming of age, heroin, suburbs, love triangle, homecoming, parents and children, down on your luck, suburban life, high school, alcohol abuse, addiction ...
Time: year 1992, 70s, 90s, year 1975
Place: michigan, detroit, canada, usa
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33%
Lower Learning (2008)
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, society, misfit, idealism, teenage life, high school life, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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32%
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Beautiful (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Determined to win the Miss American Miss pageant, Mona is ready to sacrifice anything and everything to guarantee herself the crown including her own daughter! She manages to persuade her best bud to raise the kid as her own (Miss AM can't be a ...
Style: humorous, light, melancholic, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: beauty pageant, friendship, pregnancy, family problems, blind ambition, contests and competitions, underdog, family relations, single parent, ambition, parents and children, child illness ...
Time: 90s
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31%
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Maan Karate (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Five friends meet a mystic in a forest who grants their wish — a newspaper from the future. They decide to get rich by using their knowledge of the future. They focus their efforts on Peter, a carefree youth from Royapuram, who is predicted by the ...
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, exciting, semi serious
Plot: boxing, rivalry, contests and competitions, fall in love, cons and scams, ambition, prediction, training, couples, friendship, love and romance, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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31%
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Son of Morning (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A young copywriter becomes the most famous man on the planet, overnight, when he is mistaken as the next messiah.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, futuristic
Plot: ambition, hopes, journalism, society, danger, miraculous event, workplace, lovers reunited, environmentalism, save the planet, church, catastrophe ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida
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29%
Knights of the South Bronx (2005)
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: uplifting, touching, realistic, serious, spiritual
Audience: family outing
Plot: chess, teacher, misfit, youth, against the odds, hardcase students, lifestyle, ambition, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, hopes, human spirit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 ⇓
29%
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