Movies like Ping Pong Summer

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Ping Pong Summer (2014)
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Ping Pong Summer (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1985 a summer vacation in Ocean City, Md., changes the life of a shy white teen who's obsessed with table tennis and hip-hop music.
Style: humorous, realistic, captivating, light, happy, touching, offbeat, semi serious, independent film, whimsical
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, vacation, friends, rivalry, contests and competitions, friendship, youth, society, summer, game, ping pong, misfit, teenager, teenage boy, 13 year old, young boy
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: usa, maryland
Keyword: sport

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Most similar movies to Ping Pong Summer

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about friends, friendship, youth, coming of age, society, teenager and love and romance mostly in Comedy, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like Ping Pong Summer: Breaking Away (1979), Funeral Kings (2012), Foreign Letters (2012), Side Out (1990), Defying Gravity (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Breaking Away (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his 3 friends, The comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one ...
Style: touching, realistic, inspirational, witty, talky ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, working class, cycling, underdog, bicycle, friendship, small town, teenage life, bicycle race, father son relationship, childhood, teenage boy ...
Time: 70s, year 1979, 20th century
Place: indiana, usa
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100%
Funeral Kings (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It's always a good day for a funeral at St. Mark's Middle School. Andy and Charlie, two altar servers, don't just get to miss class anytime a parishioner kicks the bucket, they cut out early and play hooky as soon as the service is ...
Style: humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, youth, group of friends, altar boy, profanity, friendship, best friend, teenage boy, sexual content, teenage life, friends, buddies ...
Time: near future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Foreign Letters (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A bittersweet coming-of-age film, Foreign Letters is itself a love letter to the unshakeable bond between friends. Set in the pre-email era of the 1980s, young Ellie, newly arrived to the US from Israel, anxiously waits for letters from her best ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching
Plot: coming of age, introspection, friendship, culture clash, teenage life, fish out of water, society, youth, hopes, immigrant, social relations, family life ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1982
Place: usa, vietnam, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bring It On: Worldwide #Cheersmack (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Destiny, captain of three-time national champions "The Rebels," is challenged to a global cheer showdown by an edgy new team called "The Truth," the Cheer Goddess organizes a virtual battle for squads from all around the ...
Style: semi serious, light, entertaining, feel good, captivating
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: cheerleader, dancing, teenager, cheerleading, contests and competitions, female protagonist, youth, rivalry, friendship, lifestyle, society, social media ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Side Out (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball.
Style: semi serious, humorous, entertaining, inspirational, funny ...
Plot: underdog, contests and competitions, ambition, youth, volleyball, friends, self discovery, rivalry, summer, teenager, college, beach ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Defying Gravity (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Cassandra, a mute runaway girl, takes refuge in the cemetery in which her mother is laid to rest. She is watched over by Jorge, the cemetery caretaker, an illegal alien who is committed to the restoration of a classic '60 cadillac hearse. Shore ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, friendship, family problems, youth, on the run, misfit, social misfits, society, dysfunctional family, dealing with death, mute or deaf, college dropout ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Outcasts (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After falling victim to a humiliating prank by the high school Queen Bee, best friends and world-class geeks, Mindy and Jodi, decide to get their revenge by uniting the outcasts of the school against her and her circle of friends.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: youth, teenage life, society, misfit, school, teenager, best friend, bullying, rivalry, social misfits, friends, prank ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.0
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Cupid's Balls (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Norway
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Swedish Lucas moves from Stockholm to a small Norwegian town, and immediately falls in love with Susanne, the goal keeper of the local girls' soccer team. He becomes axquanted with the overweight, sex-fixated son of the coach. With him as a ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: football, teenage love, sport team, contests and competitions, fall in love, rivalry, youth, buddies, ambition, social relations, village, gain trust ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Staten Island Summer (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.
Style: funny, humorous, light, romantic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lifeguard, summer, teenager, friendship, coming of age, college, workplace situations, workplace, love and romance, party, beach, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.9
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Full Grown Men (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A man stuck in the reveries of his youth tracks down the boyhood friend he once tormented, only to find that simpler times were more complicated than he thought.
Style: road movie, realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: amusement park, friends, family relations, couples, moral dilemma, buddies, introspection, youth, couple relations, on the road, fish out of water, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida
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23%
 6.4
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Summerhood (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The coming of age summer-camp saga of four best friends who hate each other.
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, realistic ...
Plot: summer camp, coming of age, youth, friendship, betrayal, gender, friends who hate each other, first love, society, best friend, friends, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.3
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Worst Friends (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: WORST FRIENDS is the story of two childhood friends who are forced to re-think their friendship as adults. When Jake (Richard Tanne) is injured in a car accident, the only person willing to take care of him is his childhood friend Sam (Noah Barrow). ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, car accident, love and romance, friends, unfulfillment, disability, suburban life, rivalry, society, suburbs, childhood friend, buddies ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Flats (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The Flats tells a cautionary tale of friendship and desire played out among a group of 20-somethings transitioning into adulthood. Main character Harper and his buddies make the most of their freedom prior to an impending court-ordered jail ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: love triangle, youth, love and romance, human nature, unemployment, friendship between men, friendship, coming of age, friends, courtroom drama, siblings relations, friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Book of Caleb (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A comfortable underachiever and serial prankster, in the midst of their quarter life crisis, reunite against childhood enemies in a contemporary suburban epic.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prank, best friend, friends, misfit, love and romance, social misfits, friendship, true love, uninhibited rivalry, society, rivalry, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Hollidaysburg (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Home for Thanksgiving break after their first semester at college, five friends discover just how much things change (and don't) after high school.
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, friends, youth, homecoming, thanksgiving, society, college, woman, coming of age, small town life, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh
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20%
Sex and the USA (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thirteen year old Audrey Shaw is new to Bellweather, California and certain shell never fit in when she meets Krista Rich, the pretty, popular girl she aspires to be "or be with" shes just not sure. In a conservative California town, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual, mockumentary
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, youth, friendship, lifestyle, society, teenage life, coming of age, innocence lost, high school life, teenager, drug, sexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
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20%
All Together Now (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Youth, in all its messy, drunken glory, is the connective thread at an all night noise-rock concert in the woods, where a motley assortment of music lovers prove that it isn’t always darkest before the dawn.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, friends, rock, lifestyle, musician, flirting, concert, youth, escapades, society, recklessness, woods ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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20%
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Paradise (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After surviving a plane crash a young conservative woman suffers a crisis of faith.
Style: realistic, cynical, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: self discovery, friendship, coming of age, church, female protagonist, car accident, society, radical, bartender, prostitute, plane crash, conservative ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Chubby (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Chubby is the nickname of Kevin, a 12 years old kid already weights 100 kilos (220.46 lb). If he keeps devours fries, pastries and ice cream everyday, he's gonna have heart attack sooner or later unless he decides to change his diet to turn ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic
Plot: friendship, youth, friends, physical appearance, power relations, coming of age, teaching the ways of the world, misfit, bittersweet, chubby
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
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I Don't Have Many Friends (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Second year high school student Kodaka Hasegawa has transferred to his new school about a month ago, but he still hasn't made any friends. Kodaka Hasegawa was born from a Japanese father and a British mother. Because of his appearance, people ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, friends, society, youth, teenage love, social misfits, physical appearance, self discovery, love and romance, social relations, teenage life, high school life
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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19%
LARPs: The Series (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 12 min.
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Story: The real lives of five friends affect their play in a live-action role-playing game... and vice versa.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, touching
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, rivalry, buddies, society, contests and competitions, misfit, obsession, computers and web, social misfits, twentysomething life, brother sister relationship, friend
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, montreal
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19%
Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA, New Zealand, Australia, Mozambique
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Johnny Kapahala, a teen snowboarding champion from Vermont, returns to Oahu, Hawaii, for the wedding of his hero -- his grandfather, local surf legend Johnny Tsunami -- and to catch a few famous Kauai waves. When Johnny arrives, he meets his new ...
Style: humorous, captivating, inspirational, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night, teens
Plot: surfing, youth, contests and competitions, family business, family relations, rivalry, store, friends, ambition, teenager, skateboard, occupation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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You're My Hero (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Thirteen-year-old Ramon is on the verge of many adolescent discoveries -- and the confusion that goes along with them. Shy and awkward, he's moved from town to town throughout his childhood and believes that life is about winning and losing. ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, youth, friendship, first love, teenage life, society, idealism, snitch, high school, teachers and students, parents and children, clergy ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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A Birder's Guide to Everything (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: David Portnoy, a 15-year-old birding fanatic, thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime. So, on the eve of his father's remarriage, he escapes on an epic road trip with his best friends to solidify their place in birding history.
Style: touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, friendship, obsessive quest, coming of age, teenage boy, road trip, friends, escapades, sexual content, friendship between boys, bird, wildlife ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Watching TV with the Red Chinese (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, non-linear ...
Plot: culture clash, fish out of water, looking for love, lifestyle, society, misfit, social differences, fall in love, disorder, buddies, love and romance, nightlife ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, usa
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Confessions of a Womanizer (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ritchie is the epitome of everything wrong with modern man: a pompous, foul-mouthed idiot, driven only to get the latest girl of the week Something changes after his first real relationship that includes Ritchie's two favorite things: frequent ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: womanizer, friendship, couples, prostitute, sexual relations, fall in love, society, disorder, best friend, profanity, love and romance, looking for sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Funny Bunny (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Gene spends his days canvassing about childhood obesity. One day he canvasses Titty, an emotionally-arrested 19-year-old who has successfully sued his own father to win back a large inheritance and gotten himself disowned in the process. Gene ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good ...
Plot: friends, love triangle, social misfits, friendship, rabbit, bicycle, pig, woman slaps man, knife
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to ...
Style: captivating, touching, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, small town, love triangle, friendship, fall in love, human nature, society, youth, family relations, working class, teenager, betrayal ...
Time: 80s
Place: illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.0
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Lou! (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Lou, a creative and dreamy 12-year-old girl, lives alone with her mother in an orange building with tons of little balconies that give access to the roof. Mina has been her best friend since kindergarten, and Lou has been in love with Tristan, one ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, coming of age, family relations, single parent, fall in love, neighbor, friendship, couples, teenager, best friend, strong female presence, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Fandango (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
Style: road movie, touching, sentimental, humorous, emotional ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night
Plot: on the road, coming of age, friendship, road trip, culture clash, male bonding, travel, adolescence, student life, adolescence vs adulthood, young lovers, obsessive quest ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1985
Place: texas, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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