Movies like The First of May
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The First of May (1999)
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Cory (Dan Byrd) is a foster child nobody wants. Carlotta (Academy Award-nominee Julie Harris) is an elderly woman the world has forgotten. Together, they find friendship and family when they join a traveling circus. Also features Mickey Rooney and Joe DiMaggio, in his last screen appearance.
Style:
independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
circus, youth, clown, boarding school life, baseball, retirement home, foster parent, heroes, friendship, friends, miraculous event, orphan, family relations, family life, chase, boarding school, sport team, starting over, social relations, nursing, hopes, mysterious character, young heroes, retirement home life, power relations ...
Time:
90s
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Most similar movies to The First of May
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, feel good, touching and humorous films with plots about family, youth, friends, family relations, hopes, friendship and family life mostly in Family, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like The First of May: Going to the Mat (2004), The Sandlot: Heading Home (2007), Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch (2002), Miracle Dogs Too (2006), Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, blind character, disability, sport team, high school, friendship, teenage life, follow your dream, teenage love, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, utah
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A successful professional baseball player gets his ego in check via an unreality check when he travels back in time to his boyhood sandlot ball-playing days.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, saga
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids, teens
Plot:
baseball, youth, friendship, sport team, partner, friends, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, rivalry, underdog, lifestyle, buddies ...
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95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Josh is off to his first year of college and buddy has stayed behind with joshs little sister andrea and the rest of the family. Adrea attempting to fit in with her jr. High classmates decides to join the baseball team and along the way discovers ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, semi serious
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot:
dog, golden retriever, baseball, pets, sport team, youth, contests and competitions, underdog, family relations, disorder, fish out of water, family life ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
94%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Zack, a young boy, finds two cocker spaniels caged in the woods and takes them home. The animals, Sissy and Buddy, have magical healing powers that change the people of a small town.
Style:
sentimental, serious, feel good, touching
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
dog, family relations, small town, miraculous event, parents and children, hopes, animal life, pets, human spirit, young heroes, magic, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
93%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After young Marty Peterson rescued Shiloh from his abusive owner, Judd Travers, he thought his troubles were over. But when Judd starts threatening to take "his" dog back, Marty is afraid of losing the best friend he's ever had. Even ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
dog, youth, boy and dog, animal, rescue, boy, childhood, family relations, redemption, heartwarming, friends, animal life ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Similarity:
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737
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to get a job in Frankfurt, Dete brings 5-year-old Heidi to her grandfather, who has been at odds with the villagers for years and lives in seclusion on ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
orphan, mountain, family relations, youth, physical disability, girl, adoption, basement, governess, friendship, optimism, disability ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
alps, switzerland, swiss alps, europe
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Alex believed in his baseball hero Billy Young. When Billy's performance struggled, Alex's friends began to doubt Alex; and Billy began to doubt himself. Alex wants to prove to his friends, to Billy, and to himself that believing in ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, exciting, uplifting, feel good ...
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
baseball, baseball coach, family relations, sport team, power relations, family life, hopes, athlete and trainer, rivalry, ambition, athlete's life, underdog ...
Time:
80s
Place:
detroit, usa
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
A young father struggling to make ends meet on a Depression-era salary can't afford to buy his 5-year-old daughter what she's expecting Santa Claus to bring her for Christmas. The surprise, uplifting ending is guaranteed to put even the ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, touching
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
christmas, youth, road not taken, hopes, obnoxious boss, redemption, boss and employee, ghost, disorder, family relations, family gatherings, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
90%
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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, feel good, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
baseball, youth, young heroes, ambition, family relations, contests and competitions, rivalry, teenage life, parents and children, coming of age, sport team, underdog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
columbus ohio, usa
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tensions rise as Jack and Fog clash over drilling plans on Jack's land near a wilderness preserve. Fog surprises the town by announcing a natural spring water business instead. Jack, skeptical, is jailed for allegedly sabotaging Fog’s well. ...
Style:
romantic, serious, feel good, realistic, touching
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, wilderness, animal life, bear, youth, heroes, hopes, escapades, family relations, human spirit, righting the wronged, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
89%
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:
semi serious, realistic, uplifting, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
baseball, youth, new york yankees, baseball player, baseball coach, coach, sport team, partner, contests and competitions, obsessive quest, ambition, rising to stardom ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, florida
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Young tween Justin Yoder, who's known for his outgoing demeanor and wit despite being confined to a wheelchair, dreams to be like his athletic older brother and propels himself into the world of soapbox derby racing. It's a field he's ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, captivating, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
disability, contests and competitions, hopes, rivalry, misfit, family life, isolation, miraculous event, race, youth, childhood, friends ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Zachary Beaver, a sideshow attraction also known as the world's fattest boy, arrives in the sleepy town of Granger, Texas.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, touching
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
youth, fat boy, friendship, friendship between boys, best friend, teenage life, mischievous children, self discovery, parents and children, family relations, young heroes, starting over ...
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When Bobby and his Mom move from Toronto, away from his dad and his baseball team, to a small town in Nova Scotia, he's picked on by all the local kids, except for Jo. And Jo has also befriended a lonely male moose who lives on an island, and ...
Style:
semi serious, independent film
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
moose, single father, bullying, father figure, single mother, 007, family relations, boy, human animal relationship, friends, disorder, animal life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
nova scotia, canada, canada, nova scotia
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An eleven-year-old boy finds a way of overcoming life's obstacles with the help of a grumpy coach who aids him in having the best summer of his life.
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, feel good, independent film ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids, teens
Plot:
baseball, youth, young heroes, athlete's life, follow your dream, rivalry, against the odds, friendship, dedicated educator, family life, athlete and trainer, ambition ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An abused beagle runs away from his owner. On the road, he meets young Marty Preston and follows him home. The boy immediately forms a bond with the dog and names him Shiloh. His stern father won't let him keep the dog because it belongs to ...
Style:
sweet, touching, emotional, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family friendly, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
dog, animal rescue, pets, youth, animal, destiny, greed, hopes, friendship, heroes, family relations, disorder ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her wealthy but bitter aunt after the tragic death of her father. Pollyanna shares a game her father taught her -- the 'Glad Game' -- in which everyone can find a silver lining in even the darkest ...
Style:
touching, feel good, uplifting, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, optimism, teaching the ways of the world, small town life, countryside, small town, young heroes, friends, change of heart, orphan, family relations, hopes ...
Time:
20th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1900s, 1910s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
84%
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, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, youth, baseball, ballet, small town, follow your dream, dancer's life, hopes, feminism, family relations, teenage life, politics ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
84%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Mark goes for a visit with his uncle he's thrown into a world he knows not much about. Little does he know it'll be a world he's going to have to become very familiar with. One character Mark becomes very familiar and friendly ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sentimental
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
bear, youth, friendship, rescue, family life, orphan, danger, animal life, wilderness, escapades, family relations, cartoon bear ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
84%
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:
humorous, feel good, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
bowling, youth, friendship, sport team, contests and competitions, rivalry, misfit, unlikely partners, social differences, disorder, high school, occupation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Full-Court Miracle is a 2003 Disney Channel Original Movie. It premiered on November 23, 2003. Inspired by the true story of University of Virginia basketball star Lamont Carr, the film centers on a group of young Jewish basketball players who ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
basketball, athlete's life, against the odds, sport team, contests and competitions, underdog, follow your dream, rivalry, athlete and trainer, fish out of water, win over, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A Hawaiian teenage surfer shows off his skills when he takes to the snow slopes in Vermont.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
surfing, snowboard, skiing, radical, friends, contests and competitions, friendship, teenage life, youth, teenager, surf, snow ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
vermont, hawaii, oceania
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An adult Martin Roy reminisces about his life in the 1966/67 school year. At fifteen years old and in his last year of junior high school, he breathed, ate and slept hockey. He collected hockey cards, played street hockey with his friends, tried ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
hockey, hockey player, coming of age, family relations, hopes, follow your dream, youth, friends, social relations, power relations, friendship, parents and children ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
canada, montreal, quebec
Similarity:
83%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Heather and Heidi play volleyball for their school team, when their family decides that they need to go to a bigger school so that they will have a better chance for scholarships. But at the new school, the twins are discovered by the basketball ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, chick flick
Plot:
twins, basketball, high school, against the odds, contests and competitions, ambition, family life, siblings relations, family relations, underdog, youth, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
THE WINNING SEASON tells the story of a legendary baseball player's struggle to choose between the love of his life and his love of the game. In the film, 12 year-old baseball fanatic Joe Soshack finds a mint condition Honus Wagner baseball ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, touching, period piece, uplifting ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
baseball, time travel, follow your dream, youth, family life, hopes, changing the past or future, rivalry, boy, nostalgia, coming of age, travel ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young girl (Jade Pettyjohn) struggles to maintain her school grades while competing as a gymnast.
Style:
touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, teens
Plot:
gymnastics, youth, athlete's life, american girl, ambition, teenage life, best friend, hopes, teachers and students, school, child, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
83%
541
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Recently orphaned David must move to the Isle of Man to live with his grandfather, Adam, who's a sheep farmer. Both long for the end of the summer, having nothing in common but their love for dogs, notably Adam's precious champion ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, independent film
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
dog, youth, animal, german shepherd, orphan, farmer, family relations, family problems, animal life, friends, farm, disorder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
england, ireland
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for 2 years to achieve his dream of buying two coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in God as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure ...
Style:
touching, feel good, semi serious, sad, gothic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot:
hound dog, friendship, dog, raccoon, hunting, wilderness, follow your dream, contests and competitions, family relations, animal, coming of age, american history ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
oklahoma city
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Lassie is claimed from his family by a "former owner" and then braves a cross country trip to rejoin the ones that love her.
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good
Audience:
family outing, preschool
Plot:
lassie, dog, animal, family relations, best friend, friendship, family life, hopes, pets, heroes, getting home, rescue ...
Time:
year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place:
colorado, california
Similarity:
82%
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, humorous, sentimental, touching, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, preschool
Plot:
dog, pets, sport team, golden retriever, soccer, ambition, friendship, rivalry, best friend, family relations, contests and competitions, animal life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
82%
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