Movies like Calvin Marshall

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Calvin Marshall (2009)
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Calvin Marshall (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A college student is determined to become a Major League Baseball star, but finds his true calling instead.
Style: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, freeze frame, realistic, independent film
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: baseball, college, coming of age, follow your dream, self discovery, ambition, youth, love and romance, underdog, hopes, athlete's life, adolescence vs adulthood, athlete and trainer, young lovers, campus, social relations, power relations, student, girlfriend, coach, kiss, baseball movie, romance
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa
Keyword: sport

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about youth, hopes, coming of age, ambition, friends, lifestyle and teenage life mostly in Comedy, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like Calvin Marshall: Hellcats (2010), Queen Sized (2008), Turning Green (2005), The Dream Kids (2013), Everybody Wants Some!! (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hellcats (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Pre-law student Marti Perkins' world is flipped upside down when she loses her scholarship, and realizes the only way she can stay in school is by reigniting her dormant teen gymnastic skills to win a place on Lancer University's legendary ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, entertaining, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: college, cheerleading, student life, cheerleader, campus, friends, team, social relations, love and romance, youth, lifestyle, teenage life ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: southern usa, usa, memphis
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Queen Sized (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An overweight girl, Maggie Baker, is elected Homecoming queen by the mean girls in the high school.
Style: feel good, uplifting, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: high school, rivalry, society, against the odds, best friend, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, hopes, family relations, underdog, prom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, south carolina
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Turning Green (2005)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Set in late 1970s Ireland, it tells the story of 16-year-old James Powers, an American who finds himself lost after his mother dies and he is forced to live with his three Irish aunts. Displaced and depressed, he longs for a way to make it back to ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot: follow your dream, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, hopes, love and romance, society, youth, getting home, fall in love, family relations, overnight success, bittersweet ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
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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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Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A comedy that follows a group of friends as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.
Style: talky, realistic, independent film, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: baseball, college, college life, friendship between men, party, coming of age, youth, male objectification, male nudity, friendship, student athlete, high school ...
Time: year 1980, year 2016, 80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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The Man from Left Field (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After taking a job managing a little league team, a homeless man inspires the kids to reach for it all and they inspire him to reclaim his life.
Style: semi serious, realistic, uplifting, feel good, emotional ...
Plot: baseball, youth, fall in love, hopes, redemption, contests and competitions, athlete's life, rivalry, single parent, follow your dream, underdog, human spirit ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: florida
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Bleacher Bums (2001)
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: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: baseball, friends, gambling, lifestyle, against the odds, follow your dream, rivalry, buddies, athlete's life, couple relations, ambition, hopes ...
Place: chicago, usa
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Two Tickets to Paradise (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three guys on the verge of forty begin to realize all the best things in their lives happened before they were twenty. A spontaneous road trip adventure gives them a chance to balance the ledger
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching
Plot: friendship, midlife crisis, road trip, self discovery, ambition, follow your dream, hopes, adolescence vs adulthood, escapades, new life, danger, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
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Goodbye, Franklin High (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Comic melodrama following the day-to-day life of high school senior Will, a promising but naive athlete struggling with choices that could determine his future, romance and family difficulties.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: baseball, high school, coming of age, college, teen angst, graduation, partner, performer's life, friends, sport team, couples, power relations ...
Time: 70s
Place: georgia
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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
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White as Milk, Red as Blood (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Leo falls in love with Beatrice, a slightly older high-school student who has leukemia.
Style: sentimental, touching, semi serious, psychological, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, love and romance, teenage life, youth, self discovery, high school, leukemia, love story, coming of age, high school life, mentally unstable, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
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Winter Break (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Viscerally experience a "year off" in Aspen, Colorado with a group of recent college grads who have elected to defer graduate school and career opportunities to ski, snow-board, climb, party, fall in love and basically live life to its ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, independent film
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: young lovers, fall in love, teenage life, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, resort, ambition, lifestyle, buddies, youth, love and romance, college life ...
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American Chai (2001)
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: semi serious, witty, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot: college, culture clash, follow your dream, lifestyle, teenage life, parents and children, youth, society, friendship, misfit, hopes, nothing goes right ...
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Out of It (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An introverted nerd and a dumb, violent jock vie for the attentions of a cheerleader.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: rivalry, coming of age, school, beach, cheerleader, high school football, performer's life, partner, sport team, friends, power relations, social relations ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: new york
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Pitcher and the Pin-Up (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Growing up in Las Vegas, Danny and Melissa meet at age eight and are destined to become life long friends. During their teen years they cling to each other for love and security but as they grow older their lives take different paths. Danny fills ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, humorous, sincere
Plot: baseball, athlete's life, follow your dream, looking for love, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, ambition, rivalry, hopes, major league, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
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Frankie & Hazel (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Actress JoBeth Williams directed this Showtime family feature starring The Sixth Sense's Mischa Barton for Barbra Streisand's Barwood Films. Barton is Frankie and Ingrid Uribe is Hazel, Frankie's neighbor and best friend. Frankie is ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, youth, ballet, baseball, small town, ambition, follow your dream, family relations, hopes, dancer's life, feminism, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new jersey
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Picture Day (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A rebellious teenager forced to repeat her last year of high school is caught between adolescence and adulthood - and between two very different male admirers.
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, melancholic, semi serious
Audience: teens
Plot: rebelliousness, rebellion, self discovery, love and romance, love triangle, adolescence vs adulthood, social relations, coming of age, school, teenage love, young love, age difference ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Jump (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Aspiring dancer Phoenix lives in the countryside with her father, but she's got her eyes set on farther places. Jumping at the chance to move to shiny Shanghai, she makes ends and dreams meet by working as a janitor at an elite dance studio ...
Style: realistic, feel good, semi serious, sincere, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, fall in love, love and romance, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, contests and competitions, hip hop, hopes, rivalry, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
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Safe at Home! (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A Florida boy (Bryan Russell) tells his Little League buddies that his father knows two New York Yankees (Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris).
Style: uplifting, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: baseball, youth, new york yankees, coach, sport team, partner, parents and children, against the odds, school, teenage life, cons and scams, power relations ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, florida
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The Italian Key (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A romantic fairy tale about a 19-year old orphan girl who, as her sole inheritance, gets an antique key that unlocks both an old Italian villa and the secrets of her family history.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, stylized ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, youth, young lovers, social relations, love and romance, self discovery, fall in love, fish out of water, siblings relations, estate, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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Gym Teacher: The Movie (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Dave Stweie was America's hope for the gold in the 1988 Seoul Games.... until he ran face first into the vault. After Suffering humiliation on a global scale, Dave eventually faded into obscurity and became a gym teacher. A gym teacher with the ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: gym teacher, youth, ambition, sports injury, lifestyle, redemption, athlete's life, contests and competitions, hopes, rivalry, school, family life ...
Time: 21st century
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Humble Pie (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: At nearly 400 pounds, Tracy Orbison is a wide target. When he sets out to pursue his dream of acting, the grocery clerk finds an assortment of people waiting to dash his dreams. Through it all, Tracy remains irrepressibly upbeat, convinced he's ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, whimsical
Plot: optimism, follow your dream, rise to the top, physical appearance, family relations, parents and children, humble, social misfits, youth, love and romance, society, teenage love ...
Time: 21st century
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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 ...
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Bart Got a Room (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Everyone is searching for love in director Brian Hecker's semi-autobiographical story. Danny Stein, a high school senior at the bottom of the social food chain, needs a prom date. As a cause of anxiety for Danny, Bart Beeber, the nerdiest guy ...
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, touching, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prom, cheerleader, teenage love, wooing, love and romance, looking for sex, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, friends, self discovery, buddies, unlikely couple ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, usa
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Everybody's Doing It (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Angela and Travis consider having sex for the first time just as their high school starts up an abstinence education program. Making matters worse, a "good girl" collects abstinence pledges from students and blows the whistle on Angela and ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle, love and romance, battle of the sexes, youth, buddies, couples, peer pressure, school, sexual relations ...
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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
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Queen of the Lot (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress Maggie Chase (Tanna Frederick) from the two things she craves the most: real fame and true love. With more "Google points" than her ...
Style: talky, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot: actor's life, showbiz, bittersweet, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, alcohol abuse, love triangle, paparazzi, unstoppable, couples, hopes, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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Finding Buck McHenry (2000)
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: humorous, touching, feel good, sentimental, non-linear ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: coach, friendship, ambition, follow your dream, against the odds, sport team, human spirit, society, lifestyle, athlete's life, hopes, family life ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
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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
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Jo's Boy (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Grandson of a legendary rugby player, son of a legendary rugby player, and he himself a legendary rugby player, Jo Canavero raises his only son, Tom, in a small village in the Tarn region. To the great displeasure of Jo, thirteen-year-old Tom is as ...
Style: sentimental, touching, captivating, serious, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: rugby, family relations, follow your dream, parent child relationship, single parent, youth, hopes, parents and children, small town, father son relationship, new beginning, small town life ...
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