Movies like The Boys 1997

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The Boys (1997)
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The Boys (1997)
Original name: Les Boys
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Every Monday night The Boys put on skates and leave their troubled lives behind.
Style: humorous, realistic, not serious, semi serious, sexy, clever, intellectual, enigmatic, feel good, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ice hockey, hockey, friendship, gangster, lawyer, drinking, drug, ice skater, olympics, winter olympics, gambling, friends, human spirit, athlete and trainer, rise to the top, follow your dream, gays and lesbians, rivalry, ambition, sport team, working class, contests and competitions, lifestyle, small town, social relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: canada, quebec, california, tokyo, new jersey
Keyword: sport, gangsters, partners, vietnamese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about ambition, rivalry, underdog, contests and competitions, lifestyle, friends and hopes mostly in Comedy, Sport and Drama genres. Some movies like The Boys: Poolhall Junkies (2002), Mystery, Alaska (1999), Chicks With Sticks (2004), Slap Shot (1977), Slap Shot 3: The Junior League (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Poolhall Junkies (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't finish.
Style: clever, witty, entertaining, stylized, serious ...
Plot: gambling, billiards, con men, con artists, gangster, vengeance, underdog, friendship, life philosophy, money, betrayal, justice ...
Time: year 2002, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mystery, Alaska (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In Mystery, Alaska, life revolves around the legendary Saturday hockey game at the local pond. But everything changes when the hometown team unexpectedly gets booked in an exhibition match against the New York Rangers. When quirky small-towners, ...
Style: feel good, touching, entertaining, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: small town, ice hockey, underdog, hockey, snow, transformation, happy ending, winter, contests and competitions, ambition, heartwarming, ice skater ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place: alaska, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Chicks With Sticks (2004)
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: semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Plot: female athlete, hockey, battle of the sexes, against the odds, ambition, feminism, contests and competitions, fall in love, lifestyle, friendship, rivalry, sport team ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.3
 41K
Slap Shot (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
Style: humorous, funny, inspirational, cult classic, cynical ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, manly
Plot: ice hockey, hockey, underdog, sport team, violence, competition, mentor, partner, ambition, adaptation, rivalry, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Slap Shot 3: The Junior League (2008)
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 ⇓
32%
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Breakaway (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, India, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A hockey enthusiast since 12 years of age, Toronto-based Rajvinder Singh, even went to the extent of trimming his hair, discarding his Pagri/turban, did not complete his education, incurred the wrath of his father, Darvesh, who wanted him to be ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic
Plot: ice hockey, hockey, culture clash, follow your dream, sport team, friends, family problems, society, ambition, family in crisis, parents and children, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Play It to the Bone (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unavailable. He wants them to box each other. They agree as long as the winner gets a shot at the ...
Style: road movie, inspirational, intense, melancholic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: boxing, friendship, boxer, unlikely friendships, contests and competitions, athlete's life, hopes, underdog, ambition, road trip, golf, love triangle ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, las vegas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.3
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Goon (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Doug Glatt, a slacker who discovers he has a talent for brawling is approached by a minor league hockey coach and invited to join the team as the "muscle." Despite the fact that Glatt can't skate his best friend, Pat, convinces him to ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, funny, humorous, witty ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: ice hockey, hockey, dimwit, underdog, success, fame, bouncer, misfit, love story, relationships, fight scenes, friendship ...
Time: y2k, 21st century
Place: nova scotia, nova scotia, canada, canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.7
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Guys & Balls (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Ecki is a sweet, closeted gay man who works in his family’s bakery and plays goalie in his small town’s soccer team. When he both loses the big game, and is caught flirting with another player, his homophobic teammates throw him out. He vows to ...
Style: realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay interest, small town, self discovery, sport team, injustice, self fulfillment, grudge, athlete's life, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.6
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The Rocket (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In the late 1930s, a young machinist named Maurice Richard distinguished himself as a ice hockey player of preternatural talent. Although that was enough to get him into the Montreal Canadiens, his frequent injuries cost him the confidence of his ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: ice hockey, hockey player, hockey, factory, discrimination, athlete's life, protest, follow your dream, contests and competitions, human spirit, rise to the top, hopes ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1955, year 1937 ...
Place: quebec, montreal, toronto ontario canada, new york, boston ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After Gordon Bombay's hockey comeback is cut short he is named coach of Team USA Hockey for the Junior Goodwill Games. Bombay reunites the Mighty Ducks and introduces a few new players, however, he finds himself distracted by his newfound fame ...
Style: spectacular, epic, hilarious, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: ice hockey, hockey, competition, childhood, olympics, underdog, youth, friendship, teenager, winter, athlete and trainer, child ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place: minnesota, los angeles, iceland, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 3.9
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Shred (2008)
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 ⇓
26%
Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice (2002)
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 ⇓
26%
Men with Brooms (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A witty and clever comedy that follows four longtime curling friends reunited by the last wishes of their recently deceased coach and set out to win the Golden Broom. Realising that the out of shape crew will be hard-pressed to win without a coach, ...
Style: humorous, funny, witty, feel good, slapstick ...
Plot: friendship, underdog, ambition, starting over, leadership, contests and competitions, lifestyle, goofy hero, sport team, cheerleader, haunted by the past, olympics ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 ⇓
25%
 4.3
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Puck Hogs (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Puck Hogs follows a men's recreational hockey team, The Puck Hogs, through a brutally hilarious weekend tournament. In the tradition of the cult classic This is Spinal Tap, Puck Hogs is a hocku-mentary comedy about ice-prone boys turning into ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, mockumentary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: hockey, ice hockey, lifestyle, stripper, silly humor, ambition, rivalry, contests and competitions, buddies, sport team, nothing to lose, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Like Mike 2: Streetball (2006)
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 ⇓
25%
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Hockey Night (1984)
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: semi serious, realistic, feel good, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: hockey, ice hockey, hopes, underdog, youth, ambition, lifestyle, fall in love, rivalry, gender, gender bending, small town life ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Eleven Men Out (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Iceland, Finland, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The star player of Icelands top football team causes a stir when he admits to being gay to his team mates and then goes on a journey to discover himself (with the help of the local press). He soon finds himself on the bench for most of his teams ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: gay athlete, gay, football, soccer, lgbt, ambition, athlete's life, life turned upside down, rivalry, buddies, social relations, journalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iceland, reykjavik iceland, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Life of the Party (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Story: A group of friends plan an intervention to help their pal address his drinking problem. Things go awry when the shrink they hired fails to show up
Style: realistic, semi serious, psychological, humorous, touching ...
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, family problems, love and romance, crumbling marriage, social decay, parents and children, dysfunctional family, alcohol abuse, american football, bittersweet, husband wife relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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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 ⇓
23%
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Seducing Doctor Lewis (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the villagers devise a scheme ...
Style: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot: culture clash, village, friendship, small town, unemployment, doctor, goofy hero, nothing goes right, social relations, disorder, comedy of errors, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: canada, quebec, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Club (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Boardroom and dressing-room intrigues spill on to the field at the Australian Rules football club.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film
Plot: football, exodus, stoner, sex crime, sport team, politics, power relations, against the odds, high school life, workplace situations, high school, moral dilemma ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.7
 9K
Rudo & Cursi (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two brothers living a hard life of manual labor in rural Mexico have a simple dream: saving enough money to build their mother her dream house. But fate has other plans. A friendly game of soccer leads to first Rudo, then to Cursi being taken on by ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat, surprise ending
Plot: soccer, football, rivalry, ambition, rise to the top, self discovery, desire for fame, ego clash, family problems, family relations, scout, step siblings ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
A Shot at Glory (2000)
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, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: soccer, follow your dream, athlete's life, human spirit, underdog, friendship, lifestyle, ambition, against the odds, football, sport team, society ...
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Sparkler (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is told to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys - Trent, Brad and Joel traveling to Las Vegas, she decides they are those kings and joins them on a trip. In Vegas she ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, stylized ...
Plot: truck driver, psychic, trailer park, friendship, on the road, gambling, drag queen, reunited friends, stripper, partner, best friend, couples ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
MVP: Most Valuable Primate (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Jack is a three-year-old chimpanzee who has been the subject of a long-term experiment by Dr. Kendall, a researcher who been teaching Jack to communicate through sign language. ack scrambles onto the ice in the midst of practice for Steven's ...
Style: feel good, humorous, not serious, captivating, light
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: hockey, chimpanzee, youth, monkey, friendship, athlete's life, against the odds, ambition, buddies, underdog, contests and competitions, disorder ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Mighty Ducks (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hockey team for his community service. Gordon has experience on the ice, but isn't eager to return to hockey, a point hit home by his tense dealings ...
Style: inspirational, humorous, sweet, light, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot: hockey, ice hockey, sport team, happy ending, childhood, athlete and trainer, competition, underdog, foe turned friend, youth, redemption, self discovery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: minnesota, minneapolis minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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