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Our Winning Season (1978)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A high-school track star (Scott Jacoby) fools around with his buddy (Dennis Quaid), until a Vietnam War tragedy makes him grow up.
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
running, track and field, vietnam war, youth, friends, athlete and trainer, best friend, ambition, high school, disability, coming of age, wartime life, underdog, human nature, bittersweet, hopes, athlete's life, power relations, teenager, school, friendship, marijuana, high school student, funeral, best friends
Time:
60s, 70s, 1960s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about youth, coming of age, friends, hopes, friendship, family relations and teenage life mostly in Drama, Comedy and Sport genres. Some movies like Our Winning Season: America Brown (2004), Face (2002), A Beautiful Secret (2002), A Fine Step (2014), Eden (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age drama that centers on a young quarterback from West Texas, a priest in New York, and the two women in their lives.
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, starting over, prodigy, haunted by the past, society, ambition, redemption, rivalry, youth, lifestyle, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
355
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, love and romance, human nature, youth, family life, single parent, introspection ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The beloved screen legend Katy Jurado, the lights one last time in the history of a special friendship that develops between a lonely old woman and Jorge, a rebellious teenager in Mexico City in 1984. Through the use flashbacks, Jorge, now an adult, ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, sentimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
friendship, human nature, rebellion, rebelliousness, youth, hopes, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, elderly, mother, mirror, flashback ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A Fine Step is an uplifting family drama centering on Cal Masterson (Luke Perry, Beverly Hills 90210) an award winning horseman whose relationship with his beloved horse Fandango allows him to achieve multiple championship wins. However tragedy ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, captivating, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
horse, starting over, friendship, contests and competitions, athlete's life, parents and children, ambition, youth, farm, rivalry, family relations, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
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378
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Story of a New England boys' school and of one of the students who is infatuated with an instructor's wife who has Multiple Sclerosis. The woman struggles to show her strict husband how love rather than demands helps the student to ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
housewife, disability, waking up, boarding school, multiple sclerosis, teacher, infatuation, hopes, ambition, unfulfillment, couple relations, idealism ...
Time:
year 1996, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new england
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Set in 1974 Texas, three teen siblings struggle with the death of their father and try to live with their abusive mother. When one of the teens is sent away because the mother can't cope with his autism, the teens embark on a life changing road ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
autism, road trip, dysfunctional family, family problems, on the road, youth, family relations, escapades, self discovery, obsessive quest, death in the family, teenage life ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
24%
544
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After an accident in a small Maryland fishing town, 11-year-old Emma begins to question the nature of the adults around her.
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, small town, introspection, family problems, human nature, family relations, friendship, family in crisis, swimming, swimmer, sex crime, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ian Willams -- who was born blind in one eye -- grew up undaunted to become an elite college basketball player. But his dream of winning a national championship and turning pro was sidetracked when a tragic accident left him completely blind. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, independent film
Plot:
blindness, prodigy, against the odds, disability, ambition, dedicated educator, human spirit, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, hopes, youth, athlete's life ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Centred around greyhound racing in a Catholic community after the "Troubles" have ended but where their legacy remains strong. Donal is a 14-year old who works in a greyhound racing kennel owned by Good Joe. If Donal's favourite ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
dog, youth, against the odds, friendship, contests and competitions, animal training, family relations, hopes, coming of age, parents and children, animal life, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
23%
659
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
redemption, youth, power relations, juvenile delinquency, human spirit, hopes, society, fire brigade, friendship, rivalry, friend, troubled youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In 1978, five teenagers in Shelbyville, Tennessee look to meet the actress Sondra Locke, who's rumored to return to town for the local premiere of her big Hollywood movie.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, teenage love, society, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, friendship, teenage life, parents and children, small town, suburbs, best friend ...
Time:
70s
Place:
tennessee, usa
Similarity:
22%
139
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Thirty four year old Goyo, a former open water swimming champion, has been hiding out in the desert. Wrongly accused of doping in the Santa Fe-Coronda Marathon, a 57 kilometer river swim, he has abandoned his career and his dreams. Eight years ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, stylized, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
swimming, follow your dream, haunted by the past, friendship, ambition, starting over, athlete's life, solitude, rivalry, false accusation, human nature, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In a world filled with hatred, their only hope was magic. Believe and anything can happen.
Style:
touching, atmospheric, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
youth, rabbi, racism, friendship, culture clash, bittersweet, anti semitism, life is a bitch, injustice, haunted by the past, society, gang ...
Place:
new york, czech republic
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An aging, disillusioned alcoholic (Nick Nolte) gets a younger friend (Trevor Morgan) and wants him to pose as his son at a school reunion.
Style:
sentimental, serious, touching, realistic
Plot:
teenage life, friendship, parents and children, sport team, family relations, high school, high school life, youth, father son relationship, baseball, alcoholic, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
year 2006
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A 13 year old talented athlete struggles to come to terms with the traumas of life as she prepares for a very important athletics event.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, sincere, humorous ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
running, high school sports, best friend, bittersweet, power relations, friends, family relations, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, school, teenage life, innocence lost ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The Fat Boy Chronicles is a motion picture about Jimmy Winterpock, an obese high-school student who deals with bullying and trying to lose weight. The film is inspired by a true story and was released in 2010 as a major motion picture.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, inspirational, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
fat boy, teenage love, human spirit, bullying, hopes, misfit, high school, society, win over, follow your dream, love and romance, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Mero, a skilled shipyard worker, is a single father. His son Lorenzo, born from a relationship with an Albanian girl, is his only reason for living. The father dreams that the boy will become a champion boxer, to make up for his own anonymous career ...
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot:
teenage life, follow your dream, ambition, athlete's life, lifestyle, single parent, hopes, parents and children, family relations, youth, athlete and trainer, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, rome italy, italy
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
While preparing for the USATF National Youth Championships, a high school runner and track coach struggle to come to terms with an irrecoverable loss.
Style:
emotional, thrilling, captivating, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
running, track and field, race, school, loss, grief, athletics, athlete and trainer, teenage life, direction and purpose, runner, coping ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A 10 year old gifted boy wants to be a jazz pianist much to the chagrin of his more classical oriented piano instructor. With his mother's help, he is an underage regular at a local nightspot, where he is teamed up with a sax superstar. Both ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, independent film, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
disability, jazz, youth, music, illness, misfit, hopes, love and romance, single parent, prodigy, lifestyle, musician's life ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
usa, new york, canada
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A couple whose son had been diagnosed as mentally retarded, and was institutionalized, are shocked to discover that the diagnosis was wrong, and that their son is in fact deaf.
Style:
thought provoking, independent film, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
sign language, deaf, coming of age, deafness, hearing, youth, family relations, spouse leaving, family problems, disability, hopes, mute or deaf ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
ohio, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Naomi, a seventeen year-old city brat from Nagoya, finds her world turned upside down after the breakup of her parents' marriage. Packed off to the country, she reluctantly works at her aunt's inn until being asked to care for Mrs. Koide, ...
Style:
touching, sincere, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, elderly, teenage life, self discovery, friendship, human nature, youth, aging, bittersweet, hotel, dementia, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
As children, Leni and Lazar were best friends. When Lazar returns from extensive travels abroad for his father's funeral, Leni yearns to reconnect with her childhood soulmate but still feels the sting of their years of estrangement.
Style:
touching, realistic, sentimental, serious, reflective ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, best friend, hopes, introspection, twentysomething life, road trip, personal growth, coming of age, countryside, slice of life, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
serbia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
hree teenagers looking for adventure find more than they expected in this coming-of-age drama. High school seniors Wade (Jason James Richter) and Lorna (Kate Hudson) have spent all their lives in the small logging town of Calamus Grove, a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, interracial relations, culture clash, teenage life, love and romance, self discovery, best friend, on the road, small town, society, social misfits, lifestyle ...
Time:
60s, 90s
Place:
oregon, usa
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A recently widowed, small-time hustler struggles to raise his two teenage daughters on his own and still make a dishonest living in 1950s Indiana.
Style:
touching, sad, sentimental, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family relations, hopes, down on your luck, terminal illness, cons and scams, life is a bitch, betrayal, human nature, single parent ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, year 1994, 60s, 50s
Place:
california, indiana
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany, Italy
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
20 short films about human rights.
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, gloomy, contemplative ...
Plot:
human spirit, introspection, redemption, youth, life is a bitch, social differences, discrimination, idealism, injustice, hopes, society, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, asia, usa, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Life as a Mormon missionary isn't what 19-year-old Brandon Allen expected: so many rules and so few successes. Los Angeles is as unrepentant as Sodom and Gomorrah. He's forced to share a small apartment with five young prank-loving ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
missionary, couples, redemption, self discovery, life is a bitch, youth, working class, terminal illness, disorder, family relations, tragic hero, couple relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
20%
538
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Two girls, at 15; Louise, in a prestigious girls' high school, and Kelly, who was admitted but forbidden by her father to attend. This is the end of their friendship, and from here the film progresses in a backwards time line to a final freeze ...
Style:
non-linear, surreal, serious, realistic, emotional
Plot:
friendship, female friendship, female bonding, feminist, best friend, family relations, parents and children, road not taken, high school, school, college, haunted by the past ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A man must cope with the loss of his wife and the obsolescence of his job before finding redemption by becoming a role model to an equally lost 13-year-old.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, reflective ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
friendship, family relations, self discovery, teenage life, interracial relations, hopes, society, idealism, spoiled brat, quibbling, aging, death in the family ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
20%
441
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The friendship of two 15-year-old boys – one black, one white – begins to fall apart under the stress of a changing world.
Style:
serious, sincere, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
farm, friendship, teenage life, social relations, social differences, family relations, youth, love and romance, coming of age, friends, interracial relations, boy ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.
Style:
realistic, emotional, contemplative, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
immigrant, coming of age, friendship, teenage life, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, society, youth, women of color, love, couples, refugee ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
19%
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