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Hockey Night (1984)
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
When a young girl wants to join her high school's hockey team as goalie, she meets with resistence, but also gets support, especially from the star forward of the team.
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
ice hockey, sport, youth, friends, family relations, gender bending, fall in love, teenage life, rivalry, ambition, lifestyle, small town, social relations, gender, underdog, bittersweet, small town life, hopes, power relations, teenager, teenage girl, female athlete, sexism, hockey, family ...
Time:
80s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, feel good, touching and humorous films with plots about ambition, sport, youth, hopes, rivalry, power relations and underdog mostly in Drama, Sport and Family genres. Some movies like Hockey Night: Chicks With Sticks (2004), All You've Got (2006), Winter Stories (1999), Go Figure (2005), The Kid (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The story takes the battle of the sexes into the hockey arena, as Paula Taymore - who almost once made the Olympic team - finds herself drawn into a challenge match against an irritating local men's squad. Fresh from a painful divorce, and ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, semi serious, feel good, touching ...
Plot:
female athlete, battle of the sexes, ice hockey, ambition, against the odds, sport, lifestyle, contests and competitions, fall in love, feminism, rivalry, sport team ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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95%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two Southern California volleyball teams determined to prove their superiority on the court find out that they're not as different as they previously thought after tragedy strikes close to home in director Neema Barnette's affectionate ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
volleyball, high school, rivalry, ambition, teenage love, teenage life, athlete's life, youth, contests and competitions, lifestyle, sport, underdog ...
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84%
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, sentimental, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
ice hockey, coming of age, family relations, hopes, youth, sport, follow your dream, friends, power relations, social relations, small town, parents and children ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
canada, montreal, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Katelin Kingsford, an Olympic hopeful figure skater wants to train with a Russian figure skating coach. In order to go to go to the school that Natasha is at, Katelin gets a scholarship playing on the girls hockey team.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
ice hockey, skating, figure skating, sport, rivalry, talent, disney, follow your dream, athlete's life, ambition, teenage life, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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188
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jimmy Albright is a young athlete with a passion for boxing. His mentor, Harry Sloan, an aging trainer and former boxer, sees Jimmy's potential, not only as a boxer but as a young man. With Harry's guidance, Jimmy trains and fights his way ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, psychological, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
boxing, youth, family relations, human spirit, athlete's life, lifestyle, hopes, rise to the top, underdog, aging, athlete and trainer, supportive spouse ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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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:
ice hockey, sport team, social relations, orphan, underdog, lifestyle, athlete and trainer, sport, rivalry, hopes, against the odds, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When an 11 year old boy gets cut from his Little League baseball team, he sets out to form his own team.
Style:
humorous, touching, sentimental, feel good, non-linear ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
coach, ambition, follow your dream, against the odds, friendship, sport team, sport, human spirit, athlete's life, society, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Scottish second division football team Kilnockie is taken over by American Pete Cameron. The new owner puts pressure on manager Gordon McLeod to improve the fortunes of the team, and hires first division player Jackie McQuillan.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, inspirational, captivating, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sport, soccer, follow your dream, human spirit, athlete's life, underdog, ambition, lifestyle, against the odds, friendship, sport team, rivalry ...
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A native-American lacrosse team makes its way through a prep school league tournament.
Style:
uplifting, exciting, feel good, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
native american, lacrosse, sport, high school, contests and competitions, hopes, ambition, human spirit, rivalry, social relations, against the odds, preparatory school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Comic melodrama following the day-to-day life of high school senior Will, a promising but naive athlete struggling with choices that could determine his future, romance and family difficulties.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, baseball, coming of age, graduation, teen angst, performer's life, friends, couples, sport team, power relations, athlete's life, moral dilemma ...
Time:
70s
Place:
georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A teenage drifter finds an opportunity to turn his life around when he joins a high-school football program with a hard-nosed coach.
Style:
serious, realistic, feel good, touching, sincere
Plot:
american football, high school, small town, human spirit, athlete's life, leadership, teenage life, against the odds, lifestyle, sport, society, rivalry ...
Place:
alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
In a conservative small town, a young man's wish to coach high school basketball are tweaked by a school board decision that makes him the new coach of the girls' team.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, inspirational
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
basketball, sport, small town, hopes, ambition, prodigy, rivalry, underdog, contests and competitions, youth, against the odds, sport team ...
Time:
60s
Place:
oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set in rural Ohio, the birthplace of football, UNDERDOGS is the story of a small-town high school football team destined to play their cross-town rival, a perennial powerhouse, while standing up for an entire community.
Style:
feel good, realistic, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
american football, cheerleader, high school football, high school, underdog, sport team, sport, athlete and trainer, youth, human spirit, ambition, follow your dream ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
SHOOTING FOR SOCRATES is a David Vs. Goliath set in Belfast against the backdrop of the 1986 World Cup. It tells the story of a momentous time in Northern Ireland's football history through the eyes of players, fans and the media. The film also ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, exciting ...
Plot:
soccer, hopes, ambition, rivalry, youth, sport, sport team, contests and competitions, family relations, parents and children, soccer fan, football ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
ireland, belfast, brazil, northern ireland, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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, feel good, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, youth, ballet, baseball, small town, follow your dream, ambition, family relations, feminism, hopes, dancer's life, teenage life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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988
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mikkel (17) lives a good life in Oslo were he has heaps of friends. When his mother gets a new job, Mikkel has to move to a small town and start all over. Here, snowboard is the big thing and to be accepted by the new kids, Mikkel has to go into ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, sentimental, touching
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, teenage life, contests and competitions, love and romance, youth, rivalry, family relations, fall in love, sport, village, snowboard, contest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
True story of Kent Stock, who in the early 90's, gives up a job and ditches his wedding plans to take over as head coach as the Norway High School baseball team. Kent must win over his players and convince them and himself that he can fill ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
baseball, sport, coach, sport team, small town, ambition, against the odds, one last chance, hopes, athlete's life, youth, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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, semi serious, realistic, feel good
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
sport, human spirit, friendship, follow your dream, athlete's life, against the odds, disney, lifestyle, ambition, teenage life, teenager, contests and competitions ...
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The Thomsons - parents Thomas and Francie, and children Willa, Arthur, Beatrice (nicknamed Booky) and Jakey - are a loving working class family living in the Depression era in Toronto. Arthur is showing aptitude in drawing, and although his parents ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
youth, family relations, teenage life, teenage love, society, love and romance, working class, family life, parents and children, coming of age, first love, child ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A group of kids have a dream: to play a football championship and to win. Their dream is going to be fulfilled by Don Pepe, an old guy with lots of expectations for his kids.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
football, school, sport team, ambition, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, rivalry, sport, small town, coach, old man, janitor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, san francisco, latin america, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
female boxer, rivalry, family relations, ambition, athlete's life, friendship, parents and children, teenage life, lifestyle, family life, sport, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
Set in the world of competitive gymnastics, the series follows a group of teen Olympic hopefuls as they train for their day in the spotlight.
Style:
feel good, serious, captivating, sentimental, realistic
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
gymnastics, athlete's life, youth, female athlete, gymnast, olympics, friends, rivalry, follow your dream, ambition, social relations, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Norway
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Swedish Lucas moves from Stockholm to a small Norwegian town, and immediately falls in love with Susanne, the goal keeper of the local girls' soccer team. He becomes axquanted with the overweight, sex-fixated son of the coach. With him as a ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
football, sport team, sport, contests and competitions, teenage love, rivalry, fall in love, social relations, youth, ambition, buddies, village ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
norway, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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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:
realistic, semi serious, uplifting, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
baseball, youth, sport team, rivalry, buddies, underdog, contests and competitions, lifestyle, obsessive quest, athlete's life, partners, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york yankees, new york, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, chick flick
Plot:
twins, basketball, high school, sport, disney, against the odds, ambition, contests and competitions, human spirit, siblings relations, family life, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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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, semi serious, humorous, touching
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
american football, sport, human spirit, athlete's life, ambition, athlete and trainer, battle of the sexes, youth, rivalry, underdog, gender, gangsters ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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, humorous, feel good
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
blindness, high school, sport team, disability, disney, follow your dream, ambition, human spirit, teenage life, friendship, sport, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Friends Gary Black (Nathan Phillips) and Dumby Red (Luke Carroll) are on the same soccer team in their coastal Australian town. But to local racists, they're a world apart: Gary is white and Dumby is an Aborigine. This becomes an issue when one ...
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
racism, friendship, family relations, interracial relations, small town, teenage life, society, lifestyle, ambition, athlete's life, love and romance, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The coach of a women's swim team parlays her success into an opportunity to build her school's men's golf team.
Style:
captivating, uplifting, serious, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, boys' night
Plot:
against the odds, golf, sport, athlete's life, human spirit, once in a lifetime opportunity, athlete and trainer, follow your dream, lifestyle, ambition, social misfits, hopes ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A second-string pro golfer desprate for his shot at success tours the country.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
golf, alcohol abuse, rivalry, underdog, lifestyle, sport, ambition, nude, female nudity, bikini, female full frontal nudity
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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