Movies like Boys Club

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Boys Club (2001)
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Boys Club (2001)
Original name: Boys Klub
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sent to San Francisco to spend the summer with his aunt, teenager Mario Vandetti makes fast friends with a group of neighborhood kids and encouraged by a caring priest they soon form a basketball team, becoming contenders in a city tournament.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, friendship, human spirit, follow your dream, teenage life, ambition, against the odds, parents and children, family life, athlete and trainer, rivalry, lifestyle, athlete's life, dedicated educator, cheerleader, basketball team, youth, underdog, friends, family relations, sport team, contests and competitions, coming of age, clergy, hopes ...
Time: contemporary
Place: usa, san francisco

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Most similar movies to Boys Club

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and feel good films with plots about contests and competitions, ambition, rivalry, youth, underdog, hopes and athlete and trainer mostly in Comedy, Family and Sport genres. Some movies like Boys Club: Fast Break (1979), The Minis (2007), Slam Dunk Ernest (1995), Her Best Move (2007), Gotta Kick It Up! (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fast Break (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along some players, who are a bit odd but good. Like Swish who unknown to the rest of the team is a girl. ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, student athlete, transsexual, teenager, culture clash, college, stoner, sport team, disorder, power relations, youth, ambition ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: nevada, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 2.6
 8K
The Minis (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Dwarfs playing basketball... with Dennis Rodman.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic
Plot: basketball, friends, sport team, athlete and trainer, hopes, follow your dream, ambition, rivalry, hotshot hero, contests and competitions, lifestyle, athlete's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Slam Dunk Ernest (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Ernest P. Worrell becomes a basketball star after an angel bearing an uncanny resemblance to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gives him a pair of magic sneakers.
Style: not serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: pre-teens, teens, family outing, date night
Plot: basketball, humour, satire, weirdo, partner, friends, disorder, power relations, sport team, contests and competitions, misfit, athlete and trainer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sentimental sequel film finds the Bears, somehow, the little league champions of California. As a result, the team is invited to play a between-games exhibition at the Houston Astrodome with the local champs, the Toros. Kelly Leak, the Bears' ...
Style: family comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Audience: teens
Plot: baseball, childhood, high school, youth, redemption, underdog, sport team, friends, family relations, estrangement, parents and children, against the odds ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: texas, austin texas, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Her Best Move (2007)
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, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenager, soccer, rivalry, against the odds, teenage love, friends, follow your dream, youth, friendship, parents and children, high school life, teenage life ...
Time: 2000s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Gotta Kick It Up! (2002)
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, uplifting, realistic, touching, teen
Audience: family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: cheerleader, cheerleading, dancer's life, school, against the odds, follow your dream, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, working class, ambition, teenage girl, gymnastics ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
35%
 5.4
 8K
Jump In! (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Story revolves around a young boxer, Izzy Daniels, who trains to follow in his father's footsteps by winning the Golden Glove. When his friend, Mary, however, asks him to substitute for a team member in a Double Dutch tournament, the young man ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, teen
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: human spirit, friendship, athlete's life, follow your dream, against the odds, ambition, lifestyle, teenage life, teenager, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 660
Kart Racer (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 14-year-old Watts Davies is estranged from his dad, a former International Karting Federation (IKF) champion. Watts's resolve to race in the upcoming IKF Regional Championships rekindles their relationship as they pursue the dream together.
Style: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, teenage life, against the odds, athlete's life, ambition, human spirit, lifestyle, follow your dream, parents and children, teaching the ways of the world, rivalry, contests and competitions ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 4.6
 140
Short Track (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Carolinian Blake Beckett (Pepper Sweeney), the son of a stock car racing legend, is a 4-time short track racing champion. Blake never made it to the speedways of the National Cup Racing circuit, but surely he could still have a shot? The daily life ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: family relations, follow your dream, youth, rise to the top, contests and competitions, hopes, teenage life, family life, auto racing, ambition, chases and races, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 4.2
 819
Grand Champion (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 'Grand Champion' weaves the tale of a spunky young boy named Buddy and his prize-winning calf, Hokey, as they climb from the underdog position and up through the ranks of several Texas stock shows to ultimately win the coveted title of ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: small town, horse, underdog, rise to the top, rivalry, human spirit, ambition, buddies, redemption, hopes, friendship, family life ...
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.5
 703
Down and Derby (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A local Pinewood Derby competition transforms an average group of dads into overzealous rivals desperate to build the winning car. As egos swell, the kids are lucky if they get to pick the paint color. While the dads are busy with outlandish ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, teen drama
Plot: rivalry, ambition, disorder, optimism, contests and competitions, athlete's life, child as adult, parents and children, family life, sport team, underdog, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.7
 2K
Best Player (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Chris Sanders and Quincy are both involved in a video game called "Black Hole", and they both want to win the tournament with a $175,500 prize. Quincy then tries to sabotage Chris, but it all goes wrong, because Chris' mom Tracy ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, scenic, gaming
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: lifestyle, friendship, teenage life, tournament, rivalry, youth, family relations, parents and children, teenage girl, game, video game, friends ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.4
 360
Safe at Home! (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A Florida boy (Bryan Russell) tells his Little League buddies that his father knows two New York Yankees (Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris).
Style: uplifting, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: baseball, youth, new york yankees, coach, sport team, partner, parents and children, against the odds, school, teenage life, cons and scams, power relations ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.5
 11K
The Big Green (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a depressed Texas town, British foreign exchange teacher Anna attempts to inject some life into her hopeless kids by introducing them to soccer. They're terrible at first, but Anna and her football-hero assistant whip them into shape. As ...
Style: inspirational, melancholic, light, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, teen drama
Plot: soccer, school, underdog, childhood, youth, athlete and trainer, football, high school life, against the odds, small town life, teachers and students, follow your dream ...
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Finding Buck McHenry (2000)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When an 11 year old boy gets cut from his Little League baseball team, he sets out to form his own team.
Style: humorous, touching, feel good, sentimental, non-linear ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: coach, friendship, ambition, follow your dream, against the odds, sport team, human spirit, society, lifestyle, athlete's life, hopes, family life ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.1
 14K
Rebound (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An acclaimed college hoops coach is demoted to a junior varsity team after a public meltdown.
Style: entertaining, feel good, touching, funny, happy ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: basketball, college, sport team, youth, underdog, follow your dream, lifestyle, human spirit, against the odds, prodigy, ambition, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Double Teamed (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Heather and Heidi play volleyball for their school team, when their family decides that they need to go to a bigger school so that they will have a better chance for scholarships. But at the new school, the twins are discovered by the basketball ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, chick flick
Plot: twins, basketball, high school, against the odds, contests and competitions, ambition, human spirit, siblings relations, family life, family relations, lifestyle, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 5.0
 1K
Soccer Mom (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A warm-hearted comedy about a compulsive soccer mom who masquerades as a famous Italian soccer star hired to coach her daughter's floundering soccer team, then struggles frantically to keep her wacky charade going long enough to see the girls ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, realistic
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: soccer, contests and competitions, sport team, family life, hidden identity, rivalry, lifestyle, underdog, hopes, disorder, parents and children, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Sandlot 2 (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A decade has passed in the small town where the original Sandlot gang banded together during the summer of ’62 to play baseball and battle the Beast. Now comes the sequel, a campy romp back to the dugout where nine new kids descend on the diamond ...
Style: feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot: sport team, youth, baseball, friendship, vengeance, partner, friends, teenage life, ambition, coming of age, buddies, rivalry ...
Time: year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Soccer Dog: European Cup (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Soccer Dog: European Cup opens with the titular hero, Kimble, escaping the clutches of an evil scientist, bent on performing animal experiments. Our plucky canine hero then falls into the hands of Zack (Jake Thomas), an American boy who's been ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: soccer, children, follow your dream, ambition, athlete's life, human spirit, contests and competitions, rivalry, disorder, family relations, hopes, against the odds ...
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Tommy and the Cool Mule (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Tommy Braxxton's father went away to war and never returned leaving Tommy faced with the daunting journey of becoming a man and the responsibility of supporting his single mom and sister. Along the way Tommy finds an unusual friend - a ...
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: starting over, family relations, hopes, rivalry, contests and competitions, farm, ambition, grownups, love, friendship, youth, bank ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Gym Teacher: The Movie (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Dave Stweie was America's hope for the gold in the 1988 Seoul Games.... until he ran face first into the vault. After Suffering humiliation on a global scale, Dave eventually faded into obscurity and became a gym teacher. A gym teacher with the ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: gym teacher, youth, ambition, sports injury, lifestyle, redemption, athlete's life, contests and competitions, hopes, rivalry, school, family life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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How to Eat Fried Worms (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: During the first day of his new school year, a fifth grade boy squares off against a bully and winds up accepting a dare that could change the balance of power within the class.
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot: boy, youth, coming of age, bully, friendship, contests and competitions, parents and children, bullying, love and romance, rivalry, friends, couples ...
Time: year 2006
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Soccer Dog: The Movie (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A heart-warming comedy about the friendship between the new kid in town and a soccer-playing dog on the lam from the dog-catcher. It's up to these two underdogs to win the PeeWee Soccer League championship game.
Style: independent film, semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: soccer, football, youth, dog, underdog, hopes, athlete and trainer, orphan, odd couple, athlete's life, lifestyle, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 ⇓
21%
 5.6
 4K
Go Figure (2005)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Katelin Kingsford, an Olympic hopeful figure skater wants to train with a Russian figure skating coach. In order to go to go to the school that Natasha is at, Katelin gets a scholarship playing on the girls hockey team.
Style: semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: figure skating, ice hockey, skating, rivalry, follow your dream, athlete's life, ambition, teenage life, friendship, lifestyle, athlete and trainer, youth ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Man from Left Field (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After taking a job managing a little league team, a homeless man inspires the kids to reach for it all and they inspire him to reclaim his life.
Style: semi serious, realistic, uplifting, feel good, emotional ...
Plot: baseball, youth, fall in love, hopes, redemption, contests and competitions, athlete's life, rivalry, single parent, follow your dream, underdog, human spirit ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Sandlot: Heading Home (2007)
Genre: Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A successful professional baseball player gets his ego in check via an unreality check when he travels back in time to his boyhood sandlot ball-playing days.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, saga
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids, teens
Plot: baseball, youth, friendship, sport team, partner, friends, buddies, hopes, athlete and trainer, underdog, ambition, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Breakdance Kid (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In 1984, loser pizza guy Whitey Johnson is run over by a semi truck on live television, making him a local hero. The world watches as Whitey vows to not only walk again but to win his town's breakdance competition. Whitey struggles to conquer ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: hip hop, teenage love, follow your dream, lifestyle, dancer's life, ambition, rivalry, love and romance, hopes, contests and competitions, youth, high school life ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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