Movies like Sink or Swim

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Sink or Swim (2018)
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Sink or Swim (2018)
Original name: Le Grand Bain
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: 40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head above water. Despite the medication he gulps down all day, every day, and his wife's encouragement, he is unable to find any meaning in his life. Curiously, he will end up finding this sense of purpose at the swimming pool, by joining an all-male synchronised swimming team.
Style: feel good, light, sincere, humorous, touching, sad, happy
Plot: swimming, burnout, coach, overcoming, ambition, synchronized swimming, happy ending, stereotypes, life philosophy, friendship, competition, unemployment, down on your luck, financial problem, working class, prejudice, dancing, family relations, midlife crisis, kindness, disability, mental health, musician, robbery, sister sister conflict ...
Time: 2010s, 80s
Place: france
Keyword: french, sport, norway, movie theatre

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, realistic and touching films with plots about friendship, family relations, ambition, friends, father son relationship, contests and competitions and underdog mostly in Comedy, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like Sink or Swim: The Full Monty (1997), Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle (2001), Love Me If You Dare (2003), Narco (2004), The Swimsuit Issue (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Full Monty (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, black comedy, hilarious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: working class, unemployment, stripper, striptease, male stripper, gay, friendship, lgbtq, dance, loser, father, small town ...
Time: 80s, 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: northern england, england, britain, united kingdom, yorkshire
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100%
Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In the 70s, there was Merckx and there were the others. Ghislain Lambert was one of the others. This is his story, a quite simple one. The story of a modest Belgian bike racer. His greatest ambition in life? To become a champion. His greatest ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, fast paced
Plot: cycling, farm, against the odds, lifestyle, ambition, hopes, contests and competitions, underdog, bicycle, bike, victory, farm hand ...
Time: 70s
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Love Me If You Dare (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might ...
Style: feel good, heartbreaking, romantic, surreal, emotional ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: youth, love hate relationship, game, friendship, relationships, friends, best friends in love, love story, lovers, music box, prank, childhood love ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: france, europe, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Narco (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Gustave Klopp suffers from narcolepsy, he can fall asleep everwhere at anytime whithout warning. Living a simple life with his wife Pam and his best friend Lenny Bar, Gus decides to undergo therapy sessions and finds out that he can make incredible ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, tense, offbeat
Plot: narcolepsy, dream, support group, follow your dream, ambition, imaginary, mental illness, daydreamer, group therapy, comic book, sleep disorder, disorder ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The Swimsuit Issue (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A wild bachelor party and an agonizing defeat in floorball awakens Fredrik's passion for male synchronized swimming.
Style: feel good, uplifting, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: friendship, self fulfillment, buddies, ambition, society, life is a bitch, family relations, sport team, youth, physical appearance, athlete and trainer, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
On a Clear Day (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After decades of laboring as a Glasgow shipbuilder, Frank Redmond, a no-nonsense 55-year-old working-class man, suddenly finds himself laid off. For the first time in his life, he is without a job or a sense of direction, and he's too proud to ...
Style: feel good, touching, humorous, emotional, stylized ...
Plot: friendship, working class, self discovery, swimming, family relations, life philosophy, character study, hopes, couple relations, down on your luck, human nature, love and romance ...
Time: year 2005
Place: scotland, english channel, glasgow scotland, europe, britain ...
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The Intouchables (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
Style: inspirational, feel good, touching, emotional, motivational ...
Audience: date night, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: friendship, disability, friendship between men, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, disabled person, lifestyle change, human relationship, handicapped, culture clash, friends, interracial friendship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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50%
The Finishers (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Julien, 17, is wheelchair-bound due to cerebral palsy. Despite their love for him, his family is gradually falling apart under the strain of dealing with his disability. In a bid to bond with his father, Julien challenges him to participate with him ...
Style: uplifting, serious, touching, realistic
Plot: disability, family relations, human spirit, contests and competitions, hopes, youth, redemption, parents and children, teenage life, father son relationship, cycling, swimming ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: france, nice france, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Mr. Know-It-All (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A football coach afraid of commitment has to take care of his nephew with Asperger's Syndrome.
Style: captivating, light, sincere, humorous, feel good
Plot: asperger's syndrome, autism, uncle nephew relationship, coach, doctor, friendship, family relations, football, child care, football team, supermarket, chess ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
In the Courtyard (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Antoine is a musician. The forties, he suddenly decides to end his career. After a few days of wandering, he gets a job as a janitor. Mathilde lives in the old building in the east of Paris where he takes office. This is a young retiree, generous ...
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Plot: friendship, aging, elderly, midlife crisis, career change, depression, anxiety, musician, illegal alien, retiring, friends, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Win Win (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When down-on-his-luck part-time high school wrestling coach Mike agrees to become legal guardian to an elderly man, his ward's troubled grandson turns out to be a star grappler, sparking dreams of a big win -- until the boy's mother ...
Style: touching, emotional, feel good, humorous, comedy drama ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: coach, lawyer, parenthood, wrestling, adolescence, dysfunctional family, responsibility, coming of age, character study, changing lives, bonding, contests and competitions ...
Time: y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Carriers Are Waiting (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 94 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: black comedy, semi serious, realistic, surreal, humorous ...
Plot: bad father, satire, family relations, journalism, obsession, midlife crisis, parents and children, motorcycle, weirdo, rainstorm, eccentricity, son ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Swimming with Men (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A man who is suffering a mid-life crisis finds new meaning in his life as part of an all-male, middle-aged, amateur synchronised swimming team.
Style: captivating, inspirational, sincere, realistic, touching
Audience: teens
Plot: swimming, father son relationship, athlete and trainer, sport team, human spirit, contests and competitions, ambition, transformation, rivalry, mission, personal growth, husband wife relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Patchwork Family (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Christian is a divorced father who can only see his young daughter Vanessa every other weekend. When he meets the single mother Christine and decides to participate in a summer TV show, his whole life is turned upside down.
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, feel good, sentimental ...
Plot: family relations, unlikely couple, parents and children, redemption, ambition, hopes, single parent, love and romance, bittersweet, contests and competitions, father daughter relationship, divorced man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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I Feel Good (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: He’s lived for too long off his parents. It’s time for 40-year-old slacker Jacques to get by on his own. One-time gigolo and a borderline bum, he knows what he wants – to become rich and famous. He even has a business plan: tourism combined ...
Style: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, black comedy
Plot: midlife crisis, unemployment, slacker, physical appearance, loser, capitalism, escapades, brother sister relationship, liberation theology, communism, ashes, ambitious man ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
My Father's Stories (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lyon, 1960s. Emile is twelve years old. His father is a hero. He says he is a judo champ, a parachutist, a soccer player and even a personal advisor to General de Gaulle. Now he wants to save French Algeria! Fascinated and proud, Emile willingly ...
Style: feel good, captivating, light, funny, humorous ...
Plot: children, father son relationship, lie, parents and children, family life, father and son, kids and family, family relations, deception, con trick, heroes, white lie ...
Time: year 1961
Place: lyon
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Shiny Shrimps (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Matthias Le Goff, an Olympic champion at the end of his career, makes a homophobic statement on TV. His punishment: coach the Shiny Shrimps, a flamboyant and amateur gay water-polo team. They have only one thing in mind: to qualify for the Gay Games ...
Style: sincere, captivating, light, feel good, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, male nudity, lgbtq, rivalry, friendship, gay slur, lgbt, society, adaptation, youth, escapades ...
Time: 2000s
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Adopt a Daddy (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, Bahzad, and his mother from imminent expulsion from the land, Damien reconnects with his parents' militant past and convinces his sister ...
Style: light, feel good, entertaining, funny, captivating ...
Plot: lawyer, family relations, relationships, friendship, con trick, assistant, deception, friends, humour, couple relations, help, male female relationship ...
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46%
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She Ball (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: On a mission to save his Inglewood community center, Avery Watts enlists a talented basketball player, Shelby, to help him win the grand prize in a street ball tournament. Together, Avery and Shelby challenge local politicians, gangs and their own ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, uplifting, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: believe in yourself, life philosophy, athlete and trainer, love story, strongman, name calling, independence, hopes, contests and competitions, life changing experience, sports man, lifestyle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Price of Fame (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ransom.
Style: realistic, feel good, entertaining, humorous, light ...
Plot: criminal heroes, cons and scams, heist, dishonesty, ransom, plan gone wrong, ex convict, trial, charlie chaplin, theft, lack of money, extortion ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1977
Place: switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Louise hires a contract killer (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In this radical and endearing black comedy, a group of retrenched female factory workers decide to pool their compensation money… and hire a hit man to liquidate their boss.
Style: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, captivating, light ...
Plot: partner, hitman, factory worker, unemployment, disorder, assassination attempt, nothing goes right, obnoxious boss, rivalry, satire, workplace, danger ...
Time: year 2008, september 11 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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46%
A Matter of Size (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Four overweight friends from the Israeli city of Ramle are fed up of dieting and the dieting club they belong to. When Herzl (155 kilos), the main protagonist, loses his job as a cook and starts working as a dishwasher in a Japanese restaurant in ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: sumo, israeli, self discovery, ambition, buddies, physical appearance, couple relations, athlete and trainer, job seeking, friendship, couples, support group ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestine
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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40-Love (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jérôme, a senior executive, has just left his company. Determined to never work for nobody else ever again, he attempts to set up his own company, come what may, even ignoring the reluctance of his wife Laura. Ugo, their 11-year-old son, is a ...
Style: semi serious, touching, thought provoking, sincere, talky
Plot: father son relationship, tennis, competition, deception, marital problem, job seeking, ambition, boy, manager, friendship between boys, pressure, 12 year old
Place: flanders
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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The Big Bad Wolf (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering about the meaning of their lives and were swamped by a wave of existential doubts. An entirely new ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, feel good, light ...
Plot: family relations, infidelity, disorder, siblings relations, couples, life turned upside down, dishonesty, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, loss of mother, hospital, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, versailles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new boyfriend. However, through football, and some special boots, he manages to gain the ...
Style: uplifting, touching, sentimental, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: soccer, working class, football, teenage life, against the odds, ambition, follow your dream, sport team, underdog, contests and competitions, rivalry, society ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: manchester, europe, england
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45%
Everything Must Go (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.
Style: touching, realistic, feel good, humorous, talky ...
Plot: friendship, addiction, salesman, unemployment, alcohol abuse, bittersweet, loneliness, tragedy, character study, self discovery, starting over, marital problem ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa, texas, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Dream Kids (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: JB suffers from a heart malformation .He falsifies his medical file ,so that he can enter a top athlete training center.
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, humorous, serious ...
Plot: friendship, teenage life, ambition, follow your dream, youth, hopes, social relations, friends, athlete's life, lifestyle, contests and competitions, boarding school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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45%
Chicken with Plums (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Nasser-Ali, a talented musician, loses the will to live after his wife breaks his beloved violin during an argument. He searches for a replacement, and finding none that sounds quite the same, he vows to die. Eight days later, he does. This is the ...
Style: surreal, sentimental, touching, semi serious, mind twisting ...
Plot: violinist, introspection, musician's life, love affair, unfulfilled love, love and romance, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, daydreamer, parents and children, family life, suicidal thoughts ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s, year 1958
Place: iran, middle east, tehran iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Intern (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: 70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
Style: feel good, inspirational, light, sweet, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot: workplace, mentor, friendship, elderly, office, life philosophy, unlikely friendships, prejudice, fashion, workplace situations, intern, internet ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, san francisco, peru ...
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45%
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