Movies like Breakaway
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Breakaway (2011)
3K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, India, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A hockey enthusiast since 12 years of age, Toronto-based Rajvinder Singh, even went to the extent of trimming his hair, discarding his Pagri/turban, did not complete his education, incurred the wrath of his father, Darvesh, who wanted him to be involved in the family business as well as confirm and respect Sikh religion principles and values. Hoping to play professional hockey, Rajvinder, along with other fellow Sikh players, instead finds himself treated as the object of ridicule, referred to as a 'joker', by mainstream Caucasian players. Even his friends tease him and ask him to take up 'Guli Danda' and Kabaddi', while his father makes him work for Uncle Sammy as a truck driver. He is attracted to stunning law student Melissa Winters while her brother, Dan, offers to coach Rajvinder and his team. Unable to get themselves included in any team, they form their own...
Style:
humorous, captivating, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
ice hockey, hockey, family in crisis, culture clash, follow your dream, sport team, friends, parents and children, society, ambition, family problems, hockey player, male female relationship, coach, olympics, winter olympics, suburbs, punjabi, hopes, power relations, family relations, truck driver, interracial relations, sikh, young romance ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
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Most similar movies to Breakaway
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about ambition, friends, hopes, sport team, rivalry, underdog and contests and competitions mostly in Sport, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Breakaway: When We Were Boys (2013), The Boys III (2001), Slap Shot 3: The Junior League (2008), Chicks With Sticks (2004), Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Christmas 1967, when hockey was played on outdoor rinks. The Boys form the parish's second team and are guaranteed participation in the Holiday Tournament as they are the hosts. Despite limited talent, they dream of victory. Off the ice, they ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, realistic, period piece, sentimental ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
hockey, friendship, youth, small town, rivalry, coming of age, ice hockey, teenage life, ambition, contests and competitions, buddies, hopes ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
quebec, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Three years have passed. The Boys are still a great hockey team in a garage league. Their coach Stan, in France for three years, returns from his trip to the delight of his troops. However, a wealthy businessman appears in the background and the ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, not serious, captivating, lighthearted ...
Plot:
hockey, friendship, rivalry, ice hockey, ambition, athlete and trainer, buddies, contests and competitions, underdog, small town, team, competition ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
quebec, canada
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35%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Get ready for a rough-and-tumble comedy that knows how to kick some serious puck!
Style:
realistic, exciting, feel good, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hockey, ice hockey, profanity, sport team, social relations, rivalry, athlete and trainer, hopes, orphan, underdog, lifestyle, against the odds ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south carolina, usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The story takes the battle of the sexes into the hockey arena, as Paula Taymore - who almost once made the Olympic team - finds herself drawn into a challenge match against an irritating local men's squad. Fresh from a painful divorce, and ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
female athlete, hockey, battle of the sexes, ambition, against the odds, hockey player, lifestyle, fall in love, feminism, rivalry, friendship, sport team ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
With the original Hanson Brothers still on the same minor league ice hockey team, the Chiefs are sold to a new owner who gives them a female coach and puts them in a league in which they are to be regularly humiliated by an opposing Harlem ...
Style:
sex comedy, exciting, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hockey, ice hockey, profanity, rivalry, hockey player, pun, olympics, winter olympics, ice skater, sport team, violent content, against the odds ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nebraska, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
When a young girl wants to join her high school's hockey team as goalie, she meets with resistence, but also gets support, especially from the star forward of the team.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
hockey, ice hockey, hockey player, underdog, rivalry, ambition, gender, lifestyle, youth, hopes, small town, teenage life ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An ice hockey star is accosted by a youth gang who attempt to rob him; after he chases them off he catches the youngest member and gives him a ride home, where he meets the boy's mother. A romantic plot ensues, as well as a confrontation with ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, sincere, emotional, light ...
Plot:
hockey, celebrity, friendship, hockey player, love, couples, athlete's life, single parent, ambition, athlete, ice hockey, youth ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
27%
45K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
Style:
humorous, funny, inspirational, cult classic, cynical ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, manly
Plot:
ice hockey, hockey, underdog, sport team, competition, mentor, partner, adaptation, hockey player, athlete and trainer, rivalry, opponent ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, canada, new jersey
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When cricket obsessed Teddy Brown realizes his mates are growing up and moving on, he leads them and his D-Grade team on an audacious tour of India, where stumps fly, friendships fray and Ted learns that it's time to start playing shots for ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Plot:
ambition, follow your dream, rivalry, buddies, contests and competitions, society, hopes, sport team, culture clash, fish out of water, underdog, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, bombay india
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Seventeen-year old Farley has the stick-handling skills of the next Sidney Crosby. Not that Farley has any idea who Crosby is. He’s led a sheltered life, homeschooled by parents whose idea of homework is trips to an art gallery or ashram. His best ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, captivating, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
hockey, ice hockey, friends, ambition, youth, prodigy, rising to stardom, parents and children, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, best friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Ducks are offered scholarships at Eden Hall Academy but struggle with their new coach's methods and come under pressure from the board to retain their scholarships before their big game against the Varsity team.
Style:
epic, realistic, semi serious, feel good, sincere ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot:
ice hockey, hockey, hockey player, competition, olympics, high school, childhood, college, school, coming of age, underdog, winter ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
minnesota, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Every Monday night The Boys put on skates and leave their troubled lives behind.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, not serious, humorous, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hockey, ice hockey, friendship, gangster, hockey player, drug, drinking, lawyer, winter olympics, ice skater, olympics, gambling ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
canada, quebec, tokyo, new jersey, california
Similarity:
26%
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, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
figure skating, ice hockey, skating, talent, rivalry, hockey, ambition, follow your dream, athlete's life, teenage life, friendship, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
25%
290
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Puck Hogs follows a men's recreational hockey team, The Puck Hogs, through a brutally hilarious weekend tournament. In the tradition of the cult classic This is Spinal Tap, Puck Hogs is a hocku-mentary comedy about ice-prone boys turning into ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, mockumentary ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
hockey, ice hockey, stripper, lifestyle, silly humor, rivalry, buddies, ambition, contests and competitions, sport team, nothing to lose, underdog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An adult Martin Roy reminisces about his life in the 1966/67 school year. At fifteen years old and in his last year of junior high school, he breathed, ate and slept hockey. He collected hockey cards, played street hockey with his friends, tried ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
hockey, hockey player, coming of age, family relations, hopes, follow your dream, youth, friends, social relations, power relations, friendship, parents and children ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
canada, montreal, quebec
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After Gordon Bombay's hockey comeback is cut short he is named coach of Team USA Hockey for the Junior Goodwill Games. Bombay reunites the Mighty Ducks and introduces a few new players, however, he finds himself distracted by his newfound fame ...
Style:
lighthearted, spectacular, epic, hilarious, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
ice hockey, hockey, childhood, hockey player, competition, olympics, underdog, youth, friendship, teenager, winter, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place:
minnesota, iceland, los angeles, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Adapted from a 1979 stage play written by Chicago's Organic Theater Company, BLEACHER BUMS details the exploits of a group of baseball fans as they sit in the bleachers of Lakeview Park watching a game between the hometown Bruins take on the ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, talky ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, gambling, friends, rivalry, follow your dream, lifestyle, against the odds, buddies, ambition, couple relations, athlete's life, hopes ...
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the sleepy town of Stensfors, the soccer team used to be something to be proud of , playing in the national league 30 years ago. Now the team will be dissolved if it can't win the rest of the games in the local league. Team member Kent goes ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot:
nothing goes right, alcoholic, couples, disorder, family problems, hopes, ambition, couple relations, crumbling marriage, small town, once promising, soccer ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Scottish second division football team Kilnockie is taken over by American Pete Cameron. The new owner puts pressure on manager Gordon McLeod to improve the fortunes of the team, and hires first division player Jackie McQuillan.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, inspirational, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
soccer, athlete's life, follow your dream, underdog, ambition, lifestyle, friendship, against the odds, football, sport team, athlete and trainer, society ...
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In Mystery, Alaska, life revolves around the legendary Saturday hockey game at the local pond. But everything changes when the hometown team unexpectedly gets booked in an exhibition match against the New York Rangers. When quirky small-towners, ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, entertaining, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
small town, ice hockey, underdog, happy ending, hockey, transformation, winter, contests and competitions, hockey player, ambition, ice skater, heartwarming ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place:
alaska, usa, new york, new jersey, california
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film deals with an Indian American student who wanted to pursue his love of music over the more 'typical' academic endeavors of Indian Americans (e.g., medicine, engineering, law, and business).
Style:
witty, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
college, culture clash, lifestyle, follow your dream, parents and children, friendship, teenage life, society, nothing goes right, misfit, youth, hopes ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A witty and clever comedy that follows four longtime curling friends reunited by the last wishes of their recently deceased coach and set out to win the Golden Broom. Realising that the out of shape crew will be hard-pressed to win without a coach, ...
Style:
humorous, witty, funny, feel good, slapstick ...
Plot:
friendship, cheerleader, underdog, ambition, starting over, leadership, goofy hero, contests and competitions, lifestyle, sport team, haunted by the past, olympics ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dr. Lionel Waddems (Bob Newhart), a golf fanatic. is put on trial for killing his golf partner (Played by Kelsey Grammer). The movie follows the trial in the news and features interviews by people who knew the men. It is based on 2 short stories ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
athlete's life, journalism, lifestyle, human spirit, farce, rivalry, nothing goes right, hopes, buddies, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, odd couple ...
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
SHOOTING FOR SOCRATES is a David Vs. Goliath set in Belfast against the backdrop of the 1986 World Cup. It tells the story of a momentous time in Northern Ireland's football history through the eyes of players, fans and the media. The film also ...
Style:
realistic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, exciting ...
Plot:
soccer, hopes, ambition, rivalry, sport team, youth, contests and competitions, family relations, parents and children, soccer fan, football, underdog ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
ireland, belfast, brazil, northern ireland, mexico
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hockey team for his community service. Gordon has experience on the ice, but isn't eager to return to hockey, a point hit home by his tense dealings ...
Style:
inspirational, sweet, humorous, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot:
hockey, happy ending, ice hockey, childhood, sport team, athlete and trainer, foe turned friend, competition, underdog, hockey player, youth, redemption ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
minnesota, minneapolis minnesota, california
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young American hustler in Las Vegas spots a rich English Lady. Smitten, he pursues her to England, where his only chance of getting together with her is to enroll in Oxford and join the rowing team.
Style:
sexual, colorful, independent film, contemplative, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
brat pack, college, teenager, american abroad, teen angst, high school, coming of age, oxford, ship, sea, crew, power relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
europe, las vegas, england, usa, oxford university
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Comedy - This entry in director Jean-Claude La Marre's Pastor Jones series sees the beleaguered clergyman coping with a gap in the church budget. When he can't make a payment on one of the church's loans, the pastor fears he may have ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, sincere, inspirational ...
Plot:
friendship, ambition, music band, rescue, clergy, society, family relations, hopes, family problems, contests and competitions, collision, church ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
20%
94K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Doug Glatt, a slacker who discovers he has a talent for brawling is approached by a minor league hockey coach and invited to join the team as the "muscle." Despite the fact that Glatt can't skate his best friend, Pat, convinces him to ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, humorous, sweet, witty ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
hockey, dimwit, success, ice hockey, gay brother, relationships, love story, underdog, fame, gay son, misfit, bouncer ...
Time:
y2k, 21st century
Place:
nova scotia, nova scotia, canada, canada, quebec, new jersey ...
Similarity:
20%
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:
touching, sentimental, humorous, feel good, non-linear ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
coach, follow your dream, ambition, against the odds, friendship, sport team, athlete's life, human spirit, hopes, society, lifestyle, family life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A 35-year-old woman fakes being pregnant to fit in with her friends.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, dishonesty, best friend, life turned upside down, disorder, lie, society, friends, thirtysomething life, parents and children, pregnancy, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
20%
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