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The Slaughter Rule (2002)
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, cult classic, indie film, independent film, emotional, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
american football, small town, coming of age, cheerleader, homoerotic friendship, football, friendship, teenage life, ambition, athlete's life, youth, love and romance, sport team, human nature, hopes, estrangement, loss of father, lgbt, american football player, friendship between men, teenage boy, gay friend, rancher, male protagonist, homosexual subtext ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
montana, usa
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Most similar movies to The Slaughter Rule
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about youth, sport team, hopes, ambition, athlete's life, high school and social relations mostly in Drama, Sport and Romance genres. Some movies like The Slaughter Rule: Friday Night Lights (2006), All the Right Moves (1983), Brian's Song (2001), All Things Fall Apart (2011), Friday Night Lights (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Friday Night Lights is an American drama television series based around a high school football team situated in Texas. The series takes place in the fictional town of Dillon: a small, close-knit community in rural Texas. Particular focus is given to ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, suspenseful, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, football, athlete and trainer, american football, sport team, cheerleader, friendship, contests and competitions, coach, small town, teenager, lifestyle ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas, hawaii, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, inspirational, talky, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
american football, high school, football, college, cheerleader, small town, coming of age, high school football, student athlete, friendship, coach, male pubic hair ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, future
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, north america, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of professional football players Gale Sayes and Brian Piccolo, and how their friendship on and off the field was affected when Piccolo contracted a fatal disease
Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
american football, sport team, human spirit, ambition, athlete's life, friendship, life is a bitch, buddies, lifestyle, football, cancer, friendship between men ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
50 Cent stars as gifted college running back Deon in this touching drama. Deon's world turns upside down when an unexpected crisis jeopardizes his professional ambitions -- and causes him to look at himself and his life in a new way.
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
american football, terminal illness, athlete's life, human spirit, bittersweet, life is a bitch, hopes, ambition, black, football, racing, special needs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town's dormant ...
Style:
inspirational, sincere, intense, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
football, high school, american football, cheerleader, sport team, high school football, underdog, championship, youth, athlete's life, small town, football team ...
Time:
80s, year 2004, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
texas, usa, houston texas, midwest, austin texas ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This is based on the true story about the relationship between Penn State football player John Cappelletti and his younger brother Joey, who has leukemia. John and Joey's bond is a strong one. Joey hangs out with John in the Penn State locker ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sentimental
Plot:
american football, youth, siblings, contests and competitions, unfulfillment, athlete's life, life is a bitch, hopes, family relations, power relations, sport team, terminal illness ...
Time:
70s, year 1973
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
This is the story of a teenager named Gracie Bowen, who lives in South Orange, New Jersey, is crazy about soccer, as are her three brothers and former soccer star father. Although Gracie wants to join her brothers and father in the nightly ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
soccer, female athlete, family problems, athlete's life, family in crisis, follow your dream, death in the family, cheerleader, football, society, ambition, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2007, 70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Billy Wyatt (Harmon), a former high school and minor-league baseball baseball player receives a telephone call from his mother revealing that his former child-sitter, and later in his teens, his first love, Katie Chandler (Foster), has died. Wyatt ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
baseball, coming of age, love, memory, nostalgia, friendship, suicide, regret, summer, reminiscence, homecoming, friendship between men ...
Time:
80s, 1950s, 60s, 50s
Place:
new jersey, philadelphia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 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:
touching, feel good, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
american football, high school, small town, teenage life, against the odds, leadership, human spirit, athlete's life, ambition, society, youth, hopes ...
Place:
alabama, usa
Similarity:
26%
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, touching, sincere, historical drama ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
baseball, hopes, high school sports, coach, sport team, small town, ambition, against the odds, one last chance, youth, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2007, 90s
Place:
iowa, usa
Similarity:
24%
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, family friendly, teens
Plot:
american football, cheerleader, high school football, high school, underdog, sport team, athlete and trainer, youth, follow your dream, rivalry, ambition, human spirit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ohio, usa
Similarity:
23%
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, sincere, touching, serious ...
Plot:
racism, friendship, family relations, interracial relations, small town, teenage life, youth, rivalry, society, lifestyle, hopes, ambition ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
australia, south australia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe handicapped life or bravely return to the life he once knew and the sport he still loves.
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, christian film, motivational ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
blindness, american football, high school football, high school, sport team, student athlete, friendship, self pity, athlete's life, disability, american football player, football ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kentucky, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age drama that centers on a young quarterback from West Texas, a priest in New York, and the two women in their lives.
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, starting over, prodigy, haunted by the past, society, ambition, redemption, rivalry, youth, lifestyle, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, new york, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, touching, sincere, compassionate ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, family outing, girls' night, adult
Plot:
football, college, american football, football team, cheerleader, athlete, happy ending, survivor, university, friendship, hopes, coach ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 2006
Place:
west virginia, virginia, california, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
23%
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, spiritual
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
hopes, athlete and trainer, small town, youth, underdog, ambition, rivalry, contests and competitions, prodigy, against the odds, dedicated educator, human spirit ...
Time:
60s, year 2006
Place:
oklahoma, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Chuck Murdock, a 12-year-old boy from Montana and son of a military jet pilot, becomes anxious after seeing a Minuteman missile on a school field trip. He protests the existence of nuclear weapons by refusing to play baseball, which results in the ...
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, melancholic, serious, uplifting ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
friendship, kids and family, nuclear war, transformation, basketball, sport team, politics, athlete's life, anti war, family relations, hopes, fighting the system ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
usa, montana, boston, san francisco, new jersey ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Henry Steele is a basketball phenom at his small town high school, but when he matriculates to a big city university on a scholarship, soon realizes that he has few skills outside the sport. Expected by his coach to contribute significantly to the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, coach, follow your dream, young lovers, youth, ambition, athlete and trainer, coming of age, rivalry, contests and competitions, university, high school ...
Time:
70s
Place:
colorado, los angeles
Similarity:
22%
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355
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, love and romance, human nature, youth, family life, single parent, introspection ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Tom Berenger leads an outstanding cast in this bone-crunching dramatization of legendary college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's debut at Texas A&M in the summer of 1954. The often unnerving story finds Bryant ducking the ...
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, realistic, sincere
Plot:
american football, teachers and students, against the odds, hopes, discrimination, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, ambition, underdog, youth, tough heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, alabama, texas
Similarity:
21%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Tully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watching movies, the cockier Tully works his way through a succession of short-term affairs and an ...
Style:
emotional, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
small town, young lovers, coming of age, friendship, introspection, lifestyle, womanizer, youth, society, couples, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2000
Place:
nebraska, europe, usa, england
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young coach turns a losing high school football program around to go undefeated for 12 consecutive seasons.
Style:
captivating, sincere, uplifting, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
american football, rise to the top, contests and competitions, football, athlete and trainer, ambition, small town, high school sports, youth, coach, high school football, sport team ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, oakland california
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A story about basketball and befriending. Gar is a High School journalist who, while covering the team to the state championship, is best friends with the teams' main "Star" Matt Dunbar. Matt's older brother persuades him to ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, cheerleader, basketball, friendship, athlete's life, teenage life, ambition, love and romance, lifestyle, danger, rivalry, gang ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana, usa
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the wake of a car crash that killed his brother, football player Jon Abbate leads his school's struggling team to its most successful season ever.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sad ...
Plot:
american football, car accident, coach, family in crisis, athlete's life, ambition, football, social relations, contests and competitions, lifestyle, american football player, christian ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
Similarity:
20%
966
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two girl friends in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina find their relationship changing as they encounter new arrivals to the town.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, youth, fall in love, couple relations, self discovery, teenage life, small town life, teenage love, best friend, human nature, gender ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, south carolina
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An aging, disillusioned alcoholic (Nick Nolte) gets a younger friend (Trevor Morgan) and wants him to pose as his son at a school reunion.
Style:
sentimental, serious, touching, realistic
Plot:
teenage life, friendship, parents and children, sport team, family relations, high school, high school life, youth, father son relationship, baseball, alcoholic, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
year 2006
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Reggie White stars as Reggie Knox, a pro football player who retires, frustrated because he hasn't won a championship. Knox begins coaching a Portland, Ore., high school football program, where he befriends a troubled student. Reggie fights ...
Style:
independent film, uplifting, serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
american football, football, black man, family relations, gang, school, high school, social relations, power relations, religions or cults, rivalry, human spirit ...
Time:
90s
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
hree teenagers looking for adventure find more than they expected in this coming-of-age drama. High school seniors Wade (Jason James Richter) and Lorna (Kate Hudson) have spent all their lives in the small logging town of Calamus Grove, a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, interracial relations, culture clash, teenage life, love and romance, self discovery, best friend, on the road, small town, society, social misfits, lifestyle ...
Time:
60s, 90s
Place:
oregon, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
American football coach Chuck Dichter has worked wonders with the Buffalo Bills, and is even confident to crown his career with a Super Bowl victory, but before the play-offs an oyster food-poisoning wipes out his first team for a month. Dan Heller, ...
Style:
humorous, serious, touching, realistic, uplifting
Plot:
american football, underdog, lifestyle, human spirit, ambition, athlete's life, against the odds, hopes, sport team, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In 1978, five teenagers in Shelbyville, Tennessee look to meet the actress Sondra Locke, who's rumored to return to town for the local premiere of her big Hollywood movie.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, teenage love, society, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, friendship, teenage life, parents and children, small town, suburbs, best friend ...
Time:
70s
Place:
tennessee, usa
Similarity:
19%
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