Movies like Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
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Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (1979)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A newspaper editor decides to send his girlfriend, who is also a reporter on the paper, undercover to try out for the cheerleading team for the Dallas Cowboys in order to do an "insider's" story.
Style:
period piece, lighthearted
Plot:
cheerleading, american football, cheerleader, journalism, undercover, behind the scenes, competition, backstage, pop culture, audition, dance, friendship, glamour, nostalgia, training, sexual attraction, magazine editor, celebrity culture, gymnastics, reporter, woman, makeover, exploitation, female empowerment, young adult ...
Time:
70s
Place:
texas, dallas texas
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Most similar movies to Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, feel good and realistic films with plots about cheerleader, friendship, american football, cheerleading, coming of age, rivalry and satire mostly in Drama, Comedy and Sport genres. Some movies like Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Gimme an 'F' (1984), Poms (2019), Cheer Up (2022), Gotta Kick It Up! (2002), Silencing Mary (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Can a squad of misfit cheerleaders with an over-age trainer possibly win the big cheerleading competition.
Style:
sex comedy, independent film, teen sex comedy
Plot:
cheerleading, cheerleader, dancing, teenager, gymnastics, sex with a minor, teen angst, teensploitation, bare chested male, nudity, store, swimming pool ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two Americans (Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna), stranded in the mideastern country of Fawzia, help an Arab leader (Peter Ustinov) build a football team so it can play and hopefully beat Notre Dame. Director J. Lee Thompson's ...
Plot:
cheerleading, american football, fictional country, college football, minefield, student athlete, airplane crash, harem, belly dancing, cold war, fall in love, father son relationship ...
Time:
60s
Place:
middle east, soviet union, indiana, ussr
Similarity:
100%
8K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman moves into a retirement community and starts a cheerleading squad with her fellow residents.
Style:
rom com, disturbing, feel good, sincere, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
cheerleading, escapades, friendship, rivalry, society, lifestyle, life philosophy, hopes, ambition, believe in yourself, bowling, women ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
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Story:
A renowned college cheerleading squad is about to go under. But love and mysteries occur within the team.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, entertaining, semi serious, inspirational ...
Plot:
cheerleading, cheerleader, campus, slice of life, university, student, teamwork, college, friendship, schoolgirl, college student, high school life ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
This was going to be the first year that Marshal Middle School was not going to have a dance team. All that changes when the new Biology teacher, Ms. Bartlett, agrees to be the coach. Now the girls need to prove that they are ready to compete and ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, teen, uplifting
Audience:
family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
cheerleading, cheerleader, against the odds, dancer's life, school, working class, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, follow your dream, ambition, teenage girl, preteen ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Mary Stuartson is proud to be the first in her family to attend a university, but when her roommate, Holly, is raped by the school's star football player, Mary, who is a reporter for the college newspaper, begins her own investigation.
Style:
controversial, emotional, crime drama, intense, tense ...
Plot:
american football, campus, rape, sexual assault, college campus, university, investigative journalism, investigation, female protagonist, cover up, college, football player ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
19K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A socially inept fourteen year old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends -- Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love -- fall for each other.
Style:
touching, feel good, epic, entertaining, colorful ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
american football, coming of age, high school, cheerleader, cheerleading, love, first love, youth, childhood, unrequited love, high school student, friendship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago, illinois, new jersey, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A thirty-seven-year-old woman wakes up from a twenty-year coma and returns to the high school where she was once a popular cheerleader to finish her senior year and become prom queen. The main plot is the empowerment of LGBTQ rights and progress ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, disturbing, psychological, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
cheerleading, satire, school, cheerleader, social problems, high school, female protagonist, middle aged, high school life, high school prom, schoolgirl, middle aged woman ...
Time:
year 1997, 2020s, year 2002, 2000s, 90s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
Style:
realistic, clever, funny, spiritual, tense ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
american football, football, football team, naked man, sexist, drug abuse, addiction, business, corruption, american football player, drug, nfl ...
Time:
70s, year 1979, 20th century, 80s
Place:
texas, dallas texas, california, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Satire about German reunification.
Style:
dark comedy, period piece, tragicomedy, bleak, independent film ...
Plot:
iron curtain, journalism, social commentary, satire, deception, tabloid journalism, cold war, fraud, scandal, political satire, small town life, corruption ...
Time:
70s
Place:
east germany, west germany
Similarity:
100%
17K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Henry Hackett is the editor of a New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchetman Alicia Clark, ...
Style:
black comedy, talky, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
journalism, newspaper, newspaper editor, workaholic, satire, media, workplace, newspaper reporter, husband wife relationship, quarrel, scapegoat, father daughter estrangement ...
Time:
20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost ...
Style:
realistic, touching, independent film, feel good, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
love and romance, journalism, musician, on the road, media, artists and showbiz, filmmaking, rock, looking for love, road trip, friendship, sex on first date ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Nicole Barnes gets the toughest assignment of her career when she’s asked to handle a breaking scandal for former pro footballer-turned-TV-commentator Jordan Davies, whose network contract isn’t going to be renewed because of a violation going ...
Style:
semi serious, psychological, captivating, satirical, thrilling ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, american football, holiday romance, male female relationship, relationships, problem, satire, football player, scandal, christmas spirit, second chance, love triangle ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Hurricane Bianca is a revenge comedy about a New York teacher who moves to a small town in Texas, gets fired for being gay, and returns disguised in drag to get revenge on the people who were nasty to him.
Style:
thought provoking, humorous, psychological, independent film, lgbt cinema ...
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, gay slur, lgbt, teacher, drag queen, revenge, high school, drag, cheerleader, school, discrimination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, indiana, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Seventeen year old, Emma joins a high school cheerleading team when she moves to Australia with her dad who is a former Air Force Officer.
Style:
feel good, captivating, light, sincere
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
cheerleading, gymnastics, cheerleader, gymnast, father daughter relationship, father, champion, female protagonist, daughter, rivalry, friendship, believe in yourself ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, adelaide south australia, south australia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In a remarkable turn of events, the result of the presidential election comes down to one man's vote.
Style:
humorous, political, touching, light, intense ...
Plot:
politics, election, presidential election, single father, small town, u.s. president, president, american football, political campaign, satire, idealism, state affairs ...
Time:
year 2008, future, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico, mexico, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A head cheerleader's life takes an unexpected twist when her rifle-like throwing arm takes her from the sidelines to becoming her middle school’s starting quarterback. Bella Dawson is a confident, caring and talented teenager, who suddenly ...
Style:
sitcom, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
american football, cheerleading, teenager, sport team, teenage girl, cheerleader, school, youth, friends, best friend, middle school, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A Philadelphia garbageman is discovered by the Philadelphia Eagles and signed by them to become a kicker.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
american football, power relations, family relations, sport team, ambition, contests and competitions, underdog, hopes, rivalry, lifestyle, athlete's life, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
90s
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A series of erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings.
Style:
anthology, sensual, erotic drama, dark comedy, surprise ending ...
Plot:
erotica, dominatrix, seduction, sexual awakening, museum, voyeurism, bdsm, american football, porn, television, sex, female nudity ...
Similarity:
100%
110K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden ...
Style:
sexy, stylized, surreal, humorous, ironic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
journalism, journalist, newspaper, cockfight, writers, alcoholism, profanity, satire, adaptation, eccentricity, gangster, addiction ...
Time:
60s, year 1960, year 2011, 20th century, 50s ...
Place:
puerto rico, caribbean, latin america, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A conservative, God fearing Southern family is spiritually changed by an auto accident, but who they become puts them at odds with the highly conservative values around them.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot:
cheerleader, church, family relations, best friend, high school, family problems, religions or cults, high school life, dark humor, gender, rehabilitation, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Texas Ranger Roland Sharp is assigned to protect the only witnesses to the murder of a key figure in the prosecution of a drug kingpin -- a group of University of Texas cheerleaders. Sharp must now go undercover as an assistant cheerleading coach ...
Style:
entertaining, teen, humorous, cute, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleading, cheerleader, teenager, murder, college, american football, tough cop, mentor, gangster, working undercover, law enforcement, campus ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s
Place:
texas, usa, mexico
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An ex-football star, paralyzed from the waist down during Vietnam, accepts the challenge of coaching football in a juvenile reform school.
Style:
inspirational, motivational, emotional, serious, period piece
Plot:
american football, vietnam war, coach, juvenile detention, football, vietnam veteran, rehabilitation, redemption, troubled youth, disability, underdog, mentor ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sheila is a newspaper reporter who returns to her home town in order to write an article about the progress of the liberation of the women. Arriving at the town she is very surprised to see that her sister and also her mother agree very much with ...
Style:
comedy drama, satirical, period piece, educational, political ...
Plot:
women's liberation, feminism, equality, gender roles, women's rights, sisterhood, sexism, female empowerment, female reporter, mother daughter relationship, social satire, social commentary ...
Time:
70s, year 1972
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Miranda Priestly navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing. She faces off against Emily Charlton, her one-time assistant, now a high-powered executive for a luxury group, with advertising dollars that Priestly ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fashion, workplace, advertising, rivalry, career, ambition, competition, relationships, legacy, identity, glamour, retirement ...
Similarity:
20%
263
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A college freshman Ramsy, played by Corey Haim experiences love for the first time in the 1960s when he asks out Joy, played by Ami Dolenz. An education of the heart.
Style:
romantic comedy, period piece, lighthearted, romantic drama, sentimental ...
Plot:
college, grownups, coming of age, first love, campus, innocence, dating, friendship, teen romance, self discovery, young adult, party ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When college freshman Cassie earns a spot on the cheerleading squad, she is overjoyed about the new friendships, status, and access to social events that come along with being on the team. When she meets Terry, the charismatic President of the ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
cheerleader, cheerleading, female protagonist, prostitution, college, forced prostitution, college student, sexual attraction, seduction, scandal, exploitation, deception ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In an effort to land the guy she's been pining after since grade school, Abby hires a local stripper named Santa Monica to teach her everything she needs to know about confidence and sex.
Style:
sensual, romantic comedy, lighthearted
Plot:
female protagonist, self discovery, friendship, empowerment, personal growth, female bonding, coming of age, female empowerment, self esteem, sexual exploration, dating, intimate ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Alienated, hopeful-filmmaker Pat Johnson's epic story growing up in rural Illinois, falling in love, and becoming the first fan of the movie that changed everything.
Style:
funny, satirical, semi serious, thrilling, humorous ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
filmmaking, fan culture, grownups, pop culture, coming of age, satire, filmmaker, film history, obsession, small town, self discovery, youth ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
18%
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