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Please Don't Hit Me, Mom (1981)
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Please Don't Hit Me, Mom (1981)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: A babysitter realizes that one of the children she looks after is being physically abused by his mother.
Plot: love, teenager, basketball, child abuse, single mother, brother brother relationship, babysitter, nanny, mother son relationship, divorced divorcee, verbal abuse, female director

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, captivating, semi serious and feel good films with plots about teenager, basketball, youth, ambition, rivalry, contests and competitions and love mostly in Drama, Sport and Family genres. Some movies like Please Don't Hit Me, Mom: The Women's Room (1980), Chang Can Dunk (2023), Amateur (2018), The St. Tammany Miracle (1994), Rock the Paint (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Women's Room (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A wife is sick and tired of her husband's infidelities, so she leaves home and goes back to grad-school. There she meets many self-confident women who help her find her own voice.
Plot: feminist, female friendship, feminism, women's liberation, self fulfillment, marriage, women's rights, love, lesbian, divorced divorcee
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Chang Can Dunk (2023)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Chang, a 16-year-old, Asian American, bets the high school basketball star that he can dunk by Homecoming. The bet leads 5' 8" Chang on a quest to learn to dunk—not only to impress his crush, Kristy, but to gain the respect of his high ...
Style: captivating, dramatic, exciting, serious
Plot: school, teenager, high school, basketball player, swimming pool, fictional biography, arena, friend, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, academy, teenage boy, student ...
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73%
 5.9
 5K
Amateur (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 14-year-old basketball phenom Terron Forte has to navigate the under-the-table world of amateur athletics when he is recruited to an elite NCAA prep school.
Style: inspirational, captivating, semi serious, disturbing, emotional
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, sport competition, basketball player, sport team, teenager, professional sports, direction and purpose, follow your dream, desire for fame, ambitious man, professional rivalry, aspiration ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The St. Tammany Miracle (1994)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The St. Tammany Miracle is an inspiring story which shows how a determined coach can bring a handful of individuals from the failure of a dark and dusty gym into the glaring light of a state championship!
Style: independent film
Plot: basketball, school, high school, religion, family relations
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Rock the Paint (2005)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story ignites when teenager Josh Sendler has to pack up his hoop dreams and move from the lush cornfields of Indiana to the harsh inner-city playgrounds of Newark, N.J.. He meets and befriends basketball phenom, Antwon Jackson, on ...
Plot: basketball, youth, city life, blood, racial tension, employee, catholic priest, church, jewish family, catholic church, racial issues, racist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Crossing the Line (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A former basketball star moves to a small town to assistant coach for a high school championship-winning basketball team.
Plot: basketball, motivational speaker, heart attack, mental breakdown, single father, parenthood, soccer match, restaurant, flash forward, single mother, working mom, father daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.9
 7K
Brink! (1998)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Andy "Brink" Brinker and his in-line skating crew--Peter, Jordy, and Gabriella--who call themselves "Soul-Skaters" (which means they skate for the fun of it, and not for the money), clash with a group of sponsored skaters, Team ...
Style: captivating, feel good, semi serious, exciting, epic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: friendship, rivalry, underdog, rise to the top, teenage life, dishonesty, rising to stardom, betrayal, hopes, ambition, moral dilemma, youth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.6
 6K
Overcomer (2019)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After reluctantly agreeing to coach cross-country, high school basketball Coach John Harrison helps the least likely runner attempt the impossible in the biggest race of the year.
Style: motivational, christian film, sincere, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: running, asthma, asthmatic, christian, coach, faith, christianity, mentor, escapades, ambition, life is a bitch, hopes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The Luck of the Irish (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A teenager must battle for a gold charm to keep his family from being controlled by an evil leprechaun.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: basketball, youth, family relations, teenage life, friendship, family life, child as adult, leprechaun, childhood, teenager, luck, love ...
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
That Championship Season (1982)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: It started as a friendly meeting between 4 old buddies with their basketball coach and ended up in revealing the truth about their relationship. The meeting forces the five men to reveal their true identity, to be honest with each other for the ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious
Plot: basketball, coach, sport team, friends, introspection, buddies, contests and competitions, ambition, haunted by the past, friendship, basketball coach, father figure ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Full-Court Miracle (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Full-Court Miracle is a 2003 Disney Channel Original Movie. It premiered on November 23, 2003. Inspired by the true story of University of Virginia basketball star Lamont Carr, the film centers on a group of young Jewish basketball players who ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: family outing
Plot: basketball, miraculous event, college, athlete's life, human spirit, ambition, against the odds, sport team, rivalry, follow your dream, underdog, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.0
 29K
Ice Princess (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: With the help of her coach, her parents, and the boy who drives the Zamboni machine, nothing can stop Casey from realizing her dream to be a champion figure skater.
Style: romantic, teen, inspirational, sweet, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, figure skating, high school, ice skater, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, happy ending, competition, dancing, coming of age, love, school ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s
Place: new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Boy Who Drank Too Much (1980)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Scott Baio plays a high school hockey player. He is well liked and well respected among his coach and teammates. What they don't know is that he is an alcoholic. His background comes from his father, who is also an alcoholic. Baio must work to ...
Plot: hockey, troubled teen, ice hockey, drinking, alcoholism, bartender, confrontation, widower, temper, family relations, loner, teenager ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
International Velvet (1978)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A charming sequel to the hit National Velvet follows our young heroine and her trusty steed overseas.
Style: semi serious, realistic, uplifting, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: horse, girl horse relationship, youth, horse race, equestrian, olympics, human animal relationship, teenager, animal, coming of age, orphan, ambition ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
What Matters Most (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Despite different backgrounds and disapproving parents, a working-class teen falls in love with the wealthy son of a prominent family in a small West Texas town.
Style: sincere, touching, serious, realistic
Plot: high school romance, love, father son relationship, childhood friend, domineering father, basketball, prom, high school, teen social issues, teenage pregnancy, small town, pregnancy ...
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.9
 2K
Sunset Park (1996)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A white school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined black high school basketball team and turns them into a winning team.
Style: hood, humorous, grim, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: basketball, high school, hip hop, underdog, black, urban, african american, teacher, student athlete, hip hop culture, danger, blaxploitation ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.8
 446
Baby Snatcher (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman is delighted to have given birth to a baby girl but her life is turned into a nightmare when she goes missing. The police mount a frantic search but to the woman's horror she finds out that it's herself who is the main suspect.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: love, wife, pregnancy, kidnapping, faked pregnancy, family problems, family relations, couples, death in the family, adoption, danger, dealing with death ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Can I Recognize Your Soul (2019)
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Sport
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: As Christine tries to find a relief after her brother's death, she meets Alonzo at the neighborhood basketball court. After finding out that he lost his father 2 years prior, they became close, and felt that if they stuck together, it would be ...
Style: hood
Plot: basketball, soul, hip hop, murder, death of father, love, death of brother, afterlife, recording studio, kiss
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 349
Rodeo Girl (2016)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Shipped off to her American dad's ranch for the summer, a teen and her horse Lucky Lad compete for a spot at the National Youth Rodeo.
Style: disturbing, captivating, entertaining
Audience: family outing
Plot: horse, girl horse relationship, human animal relationship, racehorse, father daughter relationship, rodeo, rider horse relationship, animal, family relations, teenage life, father and daughter, contests and competitions ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.7
 5K
Skater Girl (2021)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA, India
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Prerna, a teenager growing up in rural India, comes of age when she’s introduced to the sport of skateboarding. As a result, she has to fight the odds to follow her dreams and compete in the national championship.
Style: captivating, psychological, inspirational, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: skateboarder, teenager, skater, girl, teenage life, direction and purpose, social relations, female protagonist, longing, coping, strong female lead, lifestyle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Perfect Catch (2017)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When Jessica Parker’s former high school boyfriend, superstar baseball player Chase Taynor, returns to town, she finds the inspiration to reinvent her struggling diner… and revisits the past to find something even better for the future.
Style: light, romantic, humorous, feel good, sweet
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: small town, high school sweetheart, baseball player, male female relationship, old love, single mother, diner, second chance, character change, love story, moral dilemma, happy ending ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.1
 66
Begin Again (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story: 12-year-old Jessica Jones world is torn apart when she is taken out of her abusive home and placed in to Foster care. Jessica will grapple with her past, present, and future, and meet numerous struggles along the way. Her story is the reality of so ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, captivating
Plot: custody, foster parent, kids in trouble, starting over, family life, haunted by the past, family problems, youth, hopes, life is a bitch, parents and children, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Johnny Tsunami (1999)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A Hawaiian teenage surfer shows off his skills when he takes to the snow slopes in Vermont.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, scenic ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, teens
Plot: surfing, snowboard, skiing, contests and competitions, friends, radical, friendship, teenage life, youth, teenager, surf, snow ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: vermont, hawaii, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 1K
Perfect Body (1997)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Obsessed with perfection, young gymnast Andie Bradley nearly starves herself to realize her dream of making the Olympic gymnastics team.
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, sincere, psychotronic
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: eating disorder, bulimia, gymnastics, gymnast, anorexia, self harm, mental illness, weight loss, illness, mental health, dancing, love ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.9
 2K
Run the Race (2018)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Reeling from his mother’s death and his father’s abandonment, Zach, an All-State athlete, finds glory on the football field, working to earn a college scholarship and the brothers’ ticket out of town. When a devastating injury puts Zach—and ...
Style: christian film, psychological, sentimental, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: american football, christian, brother brother relationship, teenage boy, party, high school football, family bonds, friendship, coming of age, society, rivalry, riding in the back of a pickup truck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, alabama, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.5
 2K
One on One (1977)
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: serious, realistic, touching, melancholic, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, college, coach, young lovers, follow your dream, ambition, youth, contests and competitions, coming of age, athlete and trainer, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Run! T High School Basketball Club (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Yoichi plays basketball at his junior high and is capable. He is granted a scholarship and attends a high school with a superlative basket team. Instead of welcoming the boy the students there decide to bully and harass the new player leading Yoichi ...
Style: captivating, contemplative, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense
Plot: high school, teenager, basketball, school, japanese school, athlete, teenage life, rivalry, friendship, friends, society, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.4
 6K
Cloud 9 (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Set high atop snow-capped mountains in the adrenaline-fueled world of competitive snowboarding, the Disney Channel Original Movie “Cloud 9″ tells the inspiring story of two snowboarders who must overcome self-doubt to learn that achieving their ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, teen
Audience: teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: snowboarding, follow your dream, parents and children, couples, opposites attract, athlete's life, contests and competitions, snowboard, ski resort, extreme sport, snow, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: utah, usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
A Winner Never Quits (1986)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Fact-based story of a young boy who lost his right arm in a childhood accident, but went on to fulfill his dreams of playing major-league baseball. The story of Pete Gray.
Plot: baseball, major league, disability, athlete, amputee, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, one armed man
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Bad As I Wanna Be: The Dennis Rodman Story (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Biography of Chicago Bulls' basketball star Dennis Rodman, who is well known for his off-court and on-court shenanigans takes great effort to paint the calm, decent side of the athlete despite the film title. Dennis is shown to be pushed by his ...
Plot: basketball, interracial relations, weirdo, eccentricity, drug, basketball player
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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