Movies like Semi-Tough
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Semi-Tough (1977)
4K
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.
Style:
humorous, satirical, offbeat, feel good, realistic, witty, semi serious, crying, buddy comedy, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
american football, satire, football player, football team, love triangle, book, businessman, jealousy, church, self confidence, father daughter relationship, swimming pool, hotel room, canceled wedding, eccentricity, teenager, tough guy, football, wedding, friendship, sport team, friends, love and romance, profanity, fall in love ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
miami, texas
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about friendship, love and romance, friends, bare chested male, rivalry, nude and football mostly in Comedy, Romance and Sport genres. Some movies like Semi-Tough: Varsity Blues (1999), Paper Lion (1968), Johnny Be Good (1988), Wildcats (1986), Starting Over (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This ensemble comedy follows the Pullham University Bluecocks, a small liberal arts college with a Division III football program (the lowest division in the NCAA). When the head coach unexpectedly dies, the future of the flailing football program is ...
Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous, dark comedy, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
american football, cheerleader, football, fight, sport team, power relations, contests and competitions, social relations, athlete and trainer, against the odds, championship, sportscaster ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
texas, midwest, austin texas, usa, new jersey
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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:
slapstick, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot:
american football, football, writers, coach, talent show, sport team, power relations, athlete's life, ego clash, journalism, lifestyle, rivalry ...
Time:
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Place:
detroit, usa
Similarity:
100%
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 ...
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Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
american football, football, bare chested male, cheerleader, college, high school, coming of age, underdog, american football player, revenge, teenager, foot fetish ...
Time:
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Place:
texas, north america, alabama, los angeles, california
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100%
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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, light, entertaining, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
american football, football, high school football, high school, coach, rivalry, mother daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, custody battle, sport team, ambition, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
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Place:
chicago, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This effects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel. Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ...
Style:
realistic, touching, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
support group, starting over, dating, love affair, love triangle, infidelity, couple relations, hopes, thanksgiving, love, friendship, holiday ...
Time:
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Place:
boston, usa, new york
Similarity:
42%
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:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
football, soccer, playing football, sport team, ambition, football team, rivalry, couple relations, love and romance, male female relationship, woman, soccer coach ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic
Plot:
rivalry, battle of the sexes, male friendship, couple relations, buddies, contests and competitions, sport team, strong female character, friendship between men, soccer coach, football, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
berlin germany, germany, southern germany
Similarity:
39%
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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, inspirational, cult classic, funny, rom com ...
Plot:
baseball, small town, love triangle, relationships, mentor, baseball coach, age difference, baseball player, manic pixie dream girl, sexual content, nudity, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1988, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
usa, north carolina, california
Similarity:
38%
308K
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:
inspirational, feel good, motivational, sentimental, rom com ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
american football, career, single mother, love story, football, passion, workplace romance, sex scene, wedding, starting over, selfishness, sports agent ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
usa, cuba
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two New York hustlers (Michael O'Keefe, Paul Rodriguez) go to Palm Beach, Fla., and enroll in a charm school to please an heiress.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
illuminati, inheritance, teenager, high society, school, orphanage, merchant, profanity, partner, nudity, power relations, couples ...
Time:
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Place:
florida
Similarity:
38%
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, sweet, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
underdog, olympics, mentor, ex athlete, athlete's life, contests and competitions, ambition, couples, friends, comeback, love affair, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, pasadena california, phoenix arizona, usa, california ...
Similarity:
38%
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, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick, kids ...
Plot:
teenager, high school life, hopes, soccer, rivalry, friendship, teenage love, against the odds, friends, youth, follow your dream, teenage life ...
Time:
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Place:
california
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
american football, football, football team, naked man, sexist, drug abuse, addiction, business, corruption, american football player, drug, nfl ...
Time:
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Place:
texas, dallas texas, california, new jersey
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A commitment-averse man frantically hits the dating scene after his girlfriend starts pressuring him to pop the question.
Style:
sexy, semi serious, humorous, talky, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
engagement, fear of commitment, dating, friends, love, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, commitment, marriage proposal, lap dance, male nudity, naked in public ...
Place:
new york, usa, caribbean, los angeles
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Hungary, Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, touching, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, wedding, love triangle, fall in love, best friend, couples, cons and scams, party, romantic triangle, writers, high school friends, clumsy ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In order to write an expose on how cheerleading demeans women, a reporter for a college newspaper infiltrates the cheerleading squad.
Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
cheerleader, cheerleading, erotica, sexploitation, american football, female nudity, voyeur, sex, teenager, college, campus, nudity ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother in law as the king of the ambulance chasing lawyers starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see ...
Style:
humorous, witty, talky, cynical, black and white ...
Plot:
american football, lawyer, surveillance, insurance fraud, crooked lawyer, lawsuit, insurance, friendship, hospital, cons and scams, odd couple, workplace ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1966
Place:
cleveland ohio, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
talky, clever, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, santa fe new mexico, boston, california
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing professional football. Everyone see the chance to make some big money, but when a reporter digs up ...
Style:
feel good, witty, stylized, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
american football, football, cheerleader, college football, underdog, sport team, redemption, life philosophy, justice, vengeance, rivalry, love and romance ...
Time:
1920s, post world war one, 1900s, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place:
chicago, minnesota, usa, milwaukee wisconsin, france ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
With baseball being the last thing on these player's minds, and dealing with one of the longest losing streaks in college history, the team of misfits comes to the realization that the school, led by the corrupt and unethical President of the ...
Style:
feel good, not serious, humorous, realistic, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
baseball, college, fraternity, mockery, disability, friends, youth, silly humor, disorder, sport team, buddies, college life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A football player at Rosedale High School is amorous of one of the cheerleaders, who is going with another guy. Another player can't decide which of two cheerleaders he wants to be with. Meanwhile, the Big Game with Hardin High School is ...
Style:
grindhouse, cult classic, realistic, not serious, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleader, american football, drag racing, teen angst, high school, small town, romantic rivalry, teenage girl, sexy teenager, van, prank, vandalism ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s
Similarity:
37%
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, inspirational, humorous, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
american football, underdog, cheerleading, football, hopes, transformation, adaptation, contests and competitions, rivalry, against the odds, athlete and trainer, ambition ...
Time:
20th century, y2k, year 2000, 80s, 90s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., new jersey
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
With Blue Mountain State football star Thad Castle recently signing a multi-million dollar NFL contract, his teammates and college life seem like a distant memory. However, when a new school dean threatens to clean up the BMS image by auctioning off ...
Style:
sex comedy, funny, not serious, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
american football, abuse, college, sport team, youth, athlete's life, social relations, university, friends, ambition, teenage life, disorder ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason's college. While Jason tries to fit in with his fellow students, Thornton struggles to gain his son's respect, giving way to hilarious ...
Style:
humorous, light, talky, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
college, father son relationship, fish out of water, cheerleader, farce, university, college life, youth, switching roles, school, businessman, sexual fantasy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1940, future
Place:
usa, wisconsin, new york
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another ...
Style:
offbeat, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love, boarding house, mistaken identity, partner, nosy, couples, disorder, friends, buddies, fall in love, opposites attract, gender ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
37%
134K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, funny, talky, hilarious ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
slacker, jay and silent bob, friendship, weed, youth, life philosophy, bare butt, videotaped sex, dumped by girlfriend, superhero, coming of age, one day ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
minnesota, seattle, usa, north america, new jersey ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Stroker Ace, a champion NASCAR driver, is standing at the top of his career, but is getting fed up with having to do as he's told. In between rebelling against his sponsor (a fried chicken chain)'s promotion gimmicks (like making him dress ...
Style:
realistic, not serious, humorous, feel good, fast
Plot:
racing, car chase, virgin, blonde, auto racing, car, rivalry, motor racing, race, police chase, womanizer, sponsor ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Similarity:
37%
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, teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A successful, womanizing middle-aged man decides to move out of the house he shares with his wife after she confesses to having an affair. He looks for a new place to live and ends up moving into his wife's lover's apartment as a roommate. ...
Style:
black comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty
Audience:
date night
Plot:
male bonding, unemployment, businessman, adultery, jealousy, artist, polyamory, love triangle, wedding, extramarital affair, celebrity culture, friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
germany
Similarity:
37%
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