Movies like Playing for Keeps 2012

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Playing for Keeps (2012)
 5.7
 31K
Playing for Keeps (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together.
Style: romantic, funny, sexy, inspirational, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, romantic comedy, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: soccer, father son relationship, football, soccer coach, single father, eligible bachelor, relationships, parents, mentor, family drama, athlete, love and romance, coach, womanizer, family relations, grownups, temptation, ambition, down on your luck, sport team, ex athlete, adulthood, once promising, power relations, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, virginia, united states, united states of america
Keyword: sport, gangsters, doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, realistic and funny films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, family relations, love, ambition and couple relations mostly in Comedy, Romance and Sport genres. Some movies like Playing for Keeps: The Hammer (2007), Coach (2010), Kicking & Screaming (2005), FC Venus (2005), Soccer Mom (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Hammer (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Approaching forty, Ferro is unsatisfied with his life as a construction worker and part-time boxing instructor in Los Angeles, CA. After a successful bout with a young pro boxer, Ferro decides to don the gloves one last time. The movie recounts his ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, sweet, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: underdog, olympics, mentor, ex athlete, ambition, contests and competitions, athlete's life, friends, couples, love affair, comeback, hopes ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, pasadena california, phoenix arizona
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100%
 5.4
 1K
Coach (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A slacker trust-fund type finds the motivation to pick up a job as the coach of middle school soccer team
Style: semi serious, humorous, entertaining, light, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: coach, ambition, lifestyle, hopes, direction and purpose, slacker, misfit, football, soccer, buddies, athlete and trainer, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Kicking & Screaming (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Phil Weston has been unathletic his entire life. In college he failed at every sport that he tried out for. It looks like his 10-year old son, Sam, is following in his footsteps. But with becoming the coach of The Soccers, an already successful ...
Style: funny, humorous, hilarious, intense, not serious ...
Audience: family outing, teens, family friendly
Plot: soccer, obsession, football, youth, underdog, sport team, farce, ambition, family life, goofy hero, parents and children, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.5
 2K
FC Venus (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Pete is a football enthusiast, who plays as a goalkeeper for FC HeMan, a team playing in the lowest possible league. His girlfriend, Anna, hates the whole sport. Pete and his teammates are planning to travel to watch the Football World Cup held in ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, captivating ...
Plot: football, soccer, sport team, ambition, rivalry, couple relations, love and romance, male female relationship, playing football, woman, husband wife relationship, football team ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 5.0
 1K
Soccer Mom (2008)
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 ⇓
47%
 5.1
 17K
Summer Catch (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A coming-of-age romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Local boy Ryan Dunne (Freddie Prinze Jr.), now a pitcher for Boston College, meets Tenley Parrish (Jessica Biel), the daughter of a wealthy couple who summer ...
Style: romantic, semi serious, realistic, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night
Plot: small town, youth, baseball, athlete's life, woman in a bikini, rivalry, social differences, ambition, follow your dream, fall in love, young lovers, lifestyle ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: usa, massachusetts, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.6
 90K
New Year's Eve (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.
Style: romantic, light, romantic comedy, touching, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: new year, multiple storylines, new year's eve, love and romance, looking for love, lifestyle, starting over, hopes, christmas, teenager, winter, love story ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.5
 143K
Blended (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: After a bad blind date, a man and woman find themselves stuck together at a resort for families, where their attractions grows as their respective kids benefit from the burgeoning relationship.
Style: feel good, funny, romantic, light, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, kids
Plot: single parent, youth, fall in love, parents and children, single father, love story, opposites attract, love and romance, vacation, children, father daughter relationship, happy ending ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: africa, south africa, hawaii, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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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 ⇓
45%
 7.3
 285K
Jerry Maguire (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what ...
Style: feel good, motivational, inspirational, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: football, career, love story, american football, single mother, workplace romance, friendship, business, starting over, love, introspection, boss and employee ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2010s
Place: usa, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Bounty Hunter (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Milo Boyd is a bounty hunter whose latest gig is rather satisfying, as he finds out that the bail-skipper he must chase down is his own ex-wife, Nicole -- but she has no intention of getting nabbed without a fight. Complicating matters, ...
Style: romantic, funny, light, sexy, rom com ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, boys' night, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: battle of the sexes, bounty hunter, love story, love and romance, enemies to lovers, ex husband ex wife relationship, divorce, escapades, reporter, murder, relationships, marriage ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.1
 59K
Bull Durham (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, "Nuke" Laloosh. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start and is further complicated when baseball groupie Annie ...
Style: sexy, cult classic, inspirational, funny, realistic ...
Plot: baseball, small town, coach, love triangle, mentor, relationships, age difference, manic pixie dream girl, sexual content, nudity, older woman younger man relationship, summer ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
I Don't Know How She Does It (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A comedy centered on the life of Kate Reddy, a finance executive who is the breadwinner for her husband and two kids.
Style: funny, light, romantic, humorous, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: workplace, family life, relationship vs career, workaholic, gender, pregnancy, parents and children, workplace situations, ambition, in-laws, best friend, couples ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.3
 50K
The Rebound (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sandy, upon discovering her husband's infidelity while watching her son's birthday video, leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. She gets an apartment that's above a coffee house where she befriends one of the workers, Aram, a ...
Style: romantic, feel good, romantic comedy, entertaining, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, single parent, starting over, love and romance, parents and children, couple relations, nanny, age difference, fall in love, infidelity, unfaithful husband, couples ...
Time: year 2009, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.7
 12K
Fever Pitch (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch. English teacher Paul Ashworth believes his long standing obsession with Arsenal serves him well. But then he ...
Style: touching, sweet, feel good, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: soccer, football, teacher, sport team, contests and competitions, couple relations, relationship problems, fall in love, opposites attract, ambition, couples, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1997, 70s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.8
 35
Training Dad (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Widowed and in a professional decline, the legendary soccer player "Spider Salazar" lives lost in his own depression. His only inspiration is his daughter Tania, who can not stand to see her father in this state. With a lot of ingenuity ...
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: soccer, football player, father daughter relationship, father and daughter, problem solving, parents and children, family relations, coping, athlete's life, father, single father, family problems ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Her Best Move (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: 15 year-old soccer prodigy, Sara Davis, has a chance to join the U.S. National Team, but she must juggle high school, romance, sports, and parental pressure while deciding her own priorities.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenager, soccer, rivalry, against the odds, teenage love, friends, follow your dream, youth, friendship, parents and children, high school life, teenage life ...
Time: 2000s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Back-up Plan (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been searching for all her life. Now, Zoe has to figure out how ...
Style: romantic, light, romantic comedy, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: pregnancy, artificial insemination, couple relations, fall in love, couples, love and romance, love story, lifestyle, sperm donor, interracial romance, male female relationship, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Wedding Date (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While this is bad enough, Jeffrey, the man who left her as they moved closer to marriage, happens to be ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: wedding, fall in love, love story, love and romance, marriage, looking for love, opposites attract, unlikely couple, sisters, couples, family gatherings, happy ending ...
Place: europe, england, london, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
What's Your Number? (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Ally Darling (Anna Faris) is realizing she's a little lost in life. Her latest romance has just fizzled out, and she's just been fired from her marketing job. Then she reads an eye-opening magazine article that warns that 96 percent of ...
Style: feel good, sexy, romantic, humorous, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama ...
Plot: love and romance, womanizer, true love, friendship, happy ending, couples, supportive friend, high school, wedding preparations and rituals, ex couple relations, looking for love, destiny ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Accidental Husband (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When radio love guru Dr Emma Lloyd convinces Patrick Sullivan's fiancée to dump him the week before their wedding. He sets about teaching her a lesson for interfering in other peoples lives that she knows nothing about. Things take a turn when ...
Style: romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: wedding preparations and rituals, love story, couple relations, wedding, love triangle, writers, love and romance, farce, firefighter, revenge, destiny, love ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.5
 70K
Run Fatboy Run (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Five years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win her back.
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, light, intense ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: running, loser, love triangle, underdog, marathon, coach, bet, rivalry, runner, farce, racing, wedding ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, tower bridge london
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 5.7
 17K
Little Italy (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Former childhood pals Leo and Nikki are attracted to each other as adults—but will their feuding parents' rival pizzerias put a chill on their sizzling romance?
Style: romantic, light, atmospheric, touching, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot: love and romance, couple relations, parents and children, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, food, friendship, father daughter relationship, contests and competitions, rivalry, pizza, fall in love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.6
 334K
Hitch (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques fail to work on Sara ...
Style: feel good, romantic, funny, light, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: flirting, love, love and romance, dating, looking for love, interracial romance, power of love, love story, wooing, eligible bachelor, slick, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Because I Said So (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In an effort to prevent family history from repeating itself, meddlesome mom Daphne Wilder attempts to set up her youngest daughter, Milly, with Mr. Right. Meanwhile, her other daughters try to keep their mom's good intentions under control.
Style: romantic, feel good, light, funny, cute ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, matchmaking, family relations, fall in love, mother, women, love and romance, looking for love, love, happy ending, sibling relationship, new love ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
How Do You Know (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.
Style: romantic, light, witty, romantic comedy, sweet ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: fall in love, baseball, love story, destiny, life philosophy, twists and turns, writers, shopping, love affair, love and romance, ambition, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.5
 774
Backwards (2012)
Genre: Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a fiercely competitive 30 year old rower fails to make the Olympic boat for the second time, she takes a coaching job at a school but struggles to adjust to life off the race course.
Style: romantic, realistic, touching, captivating, inspirational ...
Plot: starting over, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, rivalry, youth, fall in love, high school, lifestyle, ambition, athlete's life, ex athlete, coach ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.5
 38K
Nine Months (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When he finds out his longtime girlfriend is pregnant, a commitment-phobe realizes he might have to change his lifestyle for better or much, much worse.
Style: light, touching, humorous, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: pregnancy, marriage, women, self discovery, parent child relationship, couple relations, love, babies and infants, family drama, farce, parenthood, baby ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.9
 1K
FC Venus (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot: rivalry, battle of the sexes, friendship between men, contests and competitions, couple relations, buddies, sport team, strong female character, soccer coach, football, monkey, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: berlin germany, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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