Movies like Back of the Net

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Back of the Net (2019)
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Back of the Net (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A new student at a soccer academy is determined to beat her rival's team in the national tournament.
Style: sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: rivalry, fish out of water, underdog, follow your dream, ambition, contests and competitions, rivals, life, coach, soccer, academy, pickle
Time: contemporary
Keyword: sport

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, semi serious and realistic films with plots about rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, youth, underdog, athlete and trainer and friends mostly in Family, Comedy and Sport genres. Some movies like Back of the Net: Alex & Me (2018), Going for Gold (2018), Mr. Bones (2001), Swimming for Gold (2020), The Sandlot 2 (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Alex & Me (2018)
Genre: Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: An uplifting story of the passion and drive it takes to succeed and the power of family to help realize your dreams.
Style: inspirational, sincere, captivating, light
Audience: family outing
Plot: football, soccer, contests and competitions, teenager, sport team, rivalry, follow your dream, high school life, friendship, family relations, american football, believe in yourself ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Going for Gold (2018)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Seventeen year old, Emma joins a high school cheerleading team when she moves to Australia with her dad who is a former Air Force Officer.
Style: captivating, feel good, light, sincere
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: cheerleading, gymnastics, cheerleader, female protagonist, champion, father, father daughter relationship, daughter, friendship, rivalry, gymnast, believe in yourself ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, south australia, adelaide south australia
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100%
 4.7
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Mr. Bones (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: South Africa
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A medicine man is sent looking for the son of his tribal king, and brings back an American golfer and a host of goons intent on keeping him in the golf tournament.
Style: exciting, not serious, humorous, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: obsessive quest, golf, ambition, rivalry, escapades, disorder, oracle, imaginary, wizards and magicians, golfer, tribe, african tribe ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Swimming for Gold (2020)
Genre: Family, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Young elite swimmer Claire is sent to Australia to coach a boys swimming team, where she must overcome an old rival and a secret fear to save the swimming camp from closing.
Style: light, captivating, feel good, entertaining, sincere
Audience: family outing
Plot: swimming, competition, friendship, contests and competitions, rivalry, coach, teenage angst, athlete's life, coping, sport team, world championship wrestling, direction and purpose ...
Place: oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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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 ⇓
100%
A Second Chance (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young girl and her coach overcome adversity to make their way into the National Australian Gymnastics Squad.
Style: realistic, feel good, captivating, inspirational, serious ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens
Plot: gymnastics, contests and competitions, rivalry, hopes, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, gymnast, ambition, youth, one more chance, friendship, rise to the top ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Cadet Kelly (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Hyperactive teenager Kelly is enrolled into a military school when her new stepfather becomes the Commandant. At first she has problems fitting in and taking orders until she tries out for the drill team.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot: military school, cadet, teenage life, teenager, fish out of water, teaching the ways of the world, military base, contests and competitions, youth, ambition, parents and children, disorder ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
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100%
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 ⇓
27%
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Brother in Love (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A robbery leaves a proprietor penniless before his wedding, but becoming a son-in-law to a second family might be the financial solution he needs.
Style: light, captivating, sincere, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: promise, relationships, intrigue, male female friendship, society, love, rivalry, friendship, male female relationship, happy ending, marriage, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Town That Banned Christmas (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The competition heats up at the annual Greenlawn Christmas Decorating Contest when Norbert Bridges moves to town and stirs up trouble with the reigning champion Donnie Manning. But when the town outlaws Christmas after things get out of control it s ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, light, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, family relations, social relations, friendship, family life, rivalry, ambition, small town, uninhibited rivalry, contests and competitions, small town life, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 3.0
 1K
Just 4 Kicks (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Best known as the production designer on most of the Farrelly Brothers films, Sidney J. Bartholomew Jr. makes his directorial debut with this family-friendly soccer comedy. Real-life twin brothers Dylan and Cole Sprouse play a pair of soccer-playing ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: family life, underdog, twins, soccer, football, friends, american football, youth, ambition, rivalry, family relations, hopes
Time: 21st century
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26%
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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
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50%
Tooth Fairy 2 (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Larry Guthrie, who loses his first love to the town hot shot, decides to win her back by volunteering with the children at her after-school program. When Larry accidentally tells the kids the Tooth Fairy is make-believe, he soon is transformed into ...
Style: humorous, not serious, feel good, funny, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens
Plot: fish out of water, disorder, imaginary, satire, fairy, stupid kid, teenager, youth, tooth fairy, curses spells and rituals
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Berlin Kaplani (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A boxer from berlin gets involved in several schemes. When trouble mounts, he relocates to Turkey.
Style: light, captivating, humorous, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: boxing, boxer, rivalry, ambition, lifestyle, social problems, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, humour, athlete's life, bodyguard, love ...
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Save Your Legs! (2012)
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: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot: ambition, follow your dream, rivalry, sport team, society, buddies, contests and competitions, hopes, culture clash, fish out of water, underdog, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In this third film version of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promotor/hustler who takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a ...
Style: humorous, family comedy, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: baseball, childhood, youth, culture clash, sport team, coach, power relations, friends, misfit, athlete's life, contests and competitions, friendship ...
Time: year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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25%
 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 ⇓
24%
Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?! (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: This Christmas the pupils of St Bernadette's and their much-loved, madcap teacher Mr. Poppy are back for their biggest adventure yet involving fantastic flashmobs, excitable elves, Christmas carols and of course Archie the donkey! When their ...
Style: realistic, not serious, feel good, humorous, light
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, mischievous children, rivalry, ambition, youth, couple relations, teachers and students, disorder, couples, holiday, school, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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24%
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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 ⇓
24%
Never Too Young to Dream (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of kids have a dream: to play a football championship and to win. Their dream is going to be fulfilled by Don Pepe, an old guy with lots of expectations for his kids.
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: football, school, sport team, ambition, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, rivalry, small town, coach, soccer, janitor, old man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, san francisco, latin america, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Spectacular! (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A high school choir is fading in popularity, as it continues to lose most of its' members one by one. A wannabe rock singer is convinced to join the choir, in hopes of winning the upcoming competition and cash prize.
Style: humorous, entertaining, captivating, feel good, light ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: contests and competitions, rivalry, music band, music, youth, rock, ambition, teenager, teenage girl, choir, contest, high school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
23%
Grand-Daddy Day Care (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A man has to figure out a way to make extra money when his father-in-law moves in.
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sincere, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids
Plot: father son relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, father daughter relationship, elderly man, friendship, family relations, elderly, care, age difference, happy ending, love, society ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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King of the Camp (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In order to win the heart of counselor Cindy Keyes, kitchen boy Will Cross comes to realize that becoming King of the Camp takes much more than beating tough guy Chase Gunn in a wake boarding competition.
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: ambition, fall in love, teenage life, youth, rivalry, love and romance, contests and competitions, camp, summer, tough heroes, rock, chef ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Mother of Invention (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A mockumentary about an aspiring inventor who dreams of winning an annual young inventor award. The only problem is... he's never made an invention that works.
Style: stylized, humorous, semi serious, realistic, entertaining ...
Plot: inventions and discoveries, ambition, contests and competitions, found footage, rivalry, inventor, multiple contestants, humour, invention, rivals, lonely
Time: 21st century
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23%
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
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23%
The Dog Who Saved Easter (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: It's Easter and everyone's favorite K-9 is back! The Bannisters are heading out on a family cruise and sending Zeus to doggie day care. Everything is going according to plan, until the daycare's crosstown rival hires a trio of crooks ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: dog, easter, cons and scams, save the day, rivalry, danger, holiday, kindergarten, stupid kid, heroes, criminal heroes
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Battle of the Bulbs (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bob and Stu are former best friends who still hold a grudge from an argument they had when they were teenagers. Now, they hope to settle the score with a different kind of competition: who can out-bulb the other in their town’s annual Christmas ...
Style: humorous, satirical, entertaining, funny, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, competition, rivalry, neighbor, feud, ambition, christmas spirit, neighbor neighbor relationship, christmas season, competitor, satire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.7
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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 ⇓
23%
 5.5
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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
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23%
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