Movies like Paper Lion
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Paper Lion (1968)
1K
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:
feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
Plot:
american football, writers, football, sport team, human spirit, athlete and trainer, journalism, follow your dream, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, lifestyle, partner, underdog, fish out of water, ego clash, hopes, athlete's life, power relations, coach, german shepherd, beer, nightclub, dinner, talent show ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, detroit
Keyword:
football movie, sport, partners
Most similar movies to Paper Lion
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about rivalry, ambition, underdog, contests and competitions, sport team, athlete and trainer and hopes mostly in Sport, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like Paper Lion: Wildcats (1986), Fast Break (1979), The Minis (2007), The Longshots (2008), Necessary Roughness (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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15K
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, entertaining, inspirational, light, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
american football, football, coach, high school football, high school, rivalry, sport team, ambition, athlete and trainer, mother daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, custody battle ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Dwarfs playing basketball... with Dennis Rodman.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic
Plot:
basketball, friends, sport team, athlete and trainer, hopes, follow your dream, ambition, rivalry, hotshot hero, contests and competitions, lifestyle, athlete's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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%
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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Films like The Waterboy
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Tired of the slave-like treatment of his team's owner, charismatic star Negro League pitcher Bingo Long takes to the road with his band of barnstormers through the small towns of the Midwest in the 1930's.
Style:
road movie, black comedy, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
baseball, blaxploitation, urban, black, african, power relations, sport team, athlete and trainer, underdog, contests and competitions, rivalry, follow your dream ...
Time:
1930s, year 1976
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
"Fun soccer action-comedy that's as messy and enjoyable as early eighties-Hong Kong Cinema gets. The Champions isn't a showstopper, but for fans of Yuen Biao, it's an absolute must." -lovehkfilm.com, ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
soccer, underdog, football, kung fu, tough heroes, power relations, sport team, city life, village life, against the odds, prison life, wooing ...
Time:
60s
Place:
hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Movies similar to The Replacements
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 ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
24%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When cricket obsessed Teddy Brown realizes his mates are growing up and moving on, he leads them and his D-Grade team on an audacious tour of India, where stumps fly, friendships fray and Ted learns that it's time to start playing shots for ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot:
ambition, follow your dream, rivalry, sport team, society, buddies, contests and competitions, hopes, culture clash, fish out of water, underdog, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 ⇓
24%
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Movies similar to Rookie of the Year
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so ...
Style:
funny, slapstick, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
football, american football, horse, animal, humour, football team, name calling, sport team, cheerleader, soccer, silly humor, animal life ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place:
california, former yugoslavia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A warm-hearted comedy about a compulsive soccer mom who masquerades as a famous Italian soccer star hired to coach her daughter's floundering soccer team, then struggles frantically to keep her wacky charade going long enough to see the girls ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, realistic
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
soccer, contests and competitions, sport team, family life, hidden identity, rivalry, lifestyle, underdog, hopes, disorder, parents and children, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
646
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 ⇓
23%
560
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
1st & Ten is an American situation comedy that aired between December 1984 and January 1991 on the cable television network HBO. Featuring series regulars Delta Burke and veteran Reid Shelton, it was one of cable's first attempts to lure ...
Style:
sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty
Plot:
american football, cheerleader, partner, retirement home, sport team, realism, power relations, friends, couples, ambition, rivalry, battle of the sexes ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
370
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Henry Butler (Steve Guttenberg) is a professional athlete with a little Pete Rose in him. His athletic interests go beyond the playing field and into the gambling dens. Convicted for his addiction, the soccer player is assigned to community service ...
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
soccer, football, american football, youth, contests and competitions, lifestyle, underdog, hopes, ambition, rivalry, athlete's life, gambling ...
Time:
90s
Place:
montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Films like Home Team
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A former footballer living in Brittany enlists his old teammates to help the local fisherman to win some games in order to raise money and save jobs.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, touching, realistic, funny ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
buddies, sport team, self discovery, working class, contests and competitions, hopes, lifestyle, ambition, down on your luck, power relations, society, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, brittany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Get ready for a rough-and-tumble comedy that knows how to kick some serious puck!
Style:
realistic, exciting, feel good, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hockey, ice hockey, sport team, social relations, lifestyle, athlete and trainer, rivalry, underdog, hopes, orphan, against the odds, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ernest P. Worrell becomes a basketball star after an angel bearing an uncanny resemblance to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gives him a pair of magic sneakers.
Style:
not serious, feel good, humorous
Audience:
pre-teens, teens, family outing, date night
Plot:
basketball, humour, satire, weirdo, partner, friends, disorder, power relations, sport team, contests and competitions, misfit, athlete and trainer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Another young boy with 'hoop dreams' finds an old pair of Michael Jordan's sneakers and can suddenly play ball like the greatest player in the world.
Style:
realistic, humorous, black comedy, semi serious
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
basketball, true love, friendship, hopes, rivalry, athlete's life, follow your dream, underdog, human spirit, athlete and trainer, buddies, ambition ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
About Charlie Jones, a washed up, ex major league ballplayer, and how he gets a second chance at life and love by managing a Jewish, orthodox yeshiva baseball team.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, independent film ...
Plot:
against the odds, culture clash, sport team, rabbi, ambition, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, rivalry, society, religions or cults, hopes, baseball ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Family man François Nouel (Clovis Cornillac) is the number one fan of the Tour de France – an obsession that costs him his wife and his job. At a loose end, François meets a former sports manager, Rémi (Bouli Lanners) who encourages him to take ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, feel good, light, captivating ...
Plot:
cycling, contests and competitions, rivalry, ambition, human spirit, escapades, hopes, bicycle, tour de france, lifestyle, underdog, obsessive quest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
21%
493
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
SHRED is a motion picture that tells the story of two washed up pro snowboarders from the 90s named Max (played by Dave England) and Eddie (played by Renee Renee) who attempt to cash in on the fantastic growth of the sport by starting their own ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
buddies, skiing, rivalry, friends, ambition, lifestyle, against the odds, uninhibited rivalry, underdog, hopes, athlete's life, human spirit ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Mike Bassett: England Manager is an hilarious British Comedy that stars Ricky Thomlinson. Featuring Cameos from Barry Venison, Gabby Yorath, Atomic Kitten and Pele.When the England manager has a heart attack, footballs' top brass turn to Mike ...
Style:
not serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, mockumentary ...
Plot:
soccer, football, athlete's life, rise to the top, profanity, ambition, lifestyle, sport team, athlete and trainer, underdog, contests and competitions, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, rio de janeiro, brazil, europe, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
With the original Hanson Brothers still on the same minor league ice hockey team, the Chiefs are sold to a new owner who gives them a female coach and puts them in a league in which they are to be regularly humiliated by an opposing Harlem ...
Style:
sex comedy, exciting, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hockey, ice hockey, profanity, rivalry, ice skater, olympics, winter olympics, sport team, violent content, siblings relations, against the odds, nothing to lose ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nebraska, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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