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Aspen Extreme (1993)
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Aspen Extreme (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: T.J. and his friend Dexter quit their jobs in Detroit to become ski-instructors in Aspen. While T.J. advances to the most popular instructor of the school during the season, he has to take care for Dexter, who's future is less bright and who's eventually thinking about jobbing as drug courier - bringing their friendship to a test. Meanwhile the rich business woman Brice supports T.J. in his writing ambitions and invites him to live at her home. But in her absence he falls in love with the stunningly beautiful blond radio moderator Robin.
Style: melancholic, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, light, inspirational, romantic, sexy, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: skiing, friendship, looking for sex, existentialism, loneliness, brutality, self discovery, social differences, buddies, snow, winter, beautiful scenery, drug, underdog, radio, rock, cold, ice, skater, ski, olympics, small town, winter olympics, love triangle, public nudity ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 80s
Place: colorado, antarctic, detroit, michigan, usa
Keyword: sport, gangsters, dreams, buddy movie

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about friendship, friends, love and romance, bare chested male, hopes, ambition and small town mostly in Drama, Romance and Sport genres. Some movies like Aspen Extreme: Downhill Racer (1969), Picnic (2000), Everybody's All-American (1988), Men with Brooms (2002), Picture Bride (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Downhill Racer (1969)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An ambitious young skier, determined to break all existing records, is contemptuous of the teamwork advocated by the US coach when they go to Europe for the Olympics.
Style: retro, independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: skiing, snow, olympics, winter olympics, winter, racing, landscape, cold, ice, teammate, ambition, satire ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: colorado, antarctic, europe, oregon, switzerland ...
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95%
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Picnic (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, tense
Plot: love triangle, love affair, social differences, social relations, couples, fall in love, lifestyle, rivalry, society, friendship, small town, stranger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Everybody's All-American (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Louisiana football star Gavin Grey had it all. He was an All-American champion who married his high-school sweetheart, homecoming queen Babs Rogers, and who was a hero to his hometown. Yet after a failed professional career, Gavin realizes that fame ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: american football, friendship, college, football, ambition, midlife crisis, athlete's life, family problems, sorority, marriage, self discovery, student athlete ...
Time: 80s, 1950s
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Men with Brooms (2002)
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, funny, witty, feel good, slapstick ...
Plot: friendship, underdog, ambition, starting over, leadership, contests and competitions, lifestyle, goofy hero, sport team, cheerleader, haunted by the past, olympics ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Picture Bride (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, sails from Yokohama to Hawaii in 1918 to marry Matsuji, a man she has never met. Hoping to escape a troubled past and start anew, Riyo is bitterly disappointed upon her arrival: her husband is twice her age. The ...
Style: touching, emotional, melancholic, serious, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: loveless marriage, self discovery, immigrant, orphan, existentialism, older man younger woman relationship, fish out of water, social differences, love and romance, friendship, culture clash, women of color ...
Time: year 1918, year 1994
Place: hawaii, japan, asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
No Looking Back (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Charlie returns to his old town where he meets his ex-girlfriend again and tries to get her back.
Style: emotional, disturbing, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: small town, working class, rock, old love, waitress, love triangle, friendship, bittersweet, family relations, couples, friends, social relations ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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XX/XY (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When two college students, Sam and Thea, meet Coles at a party, their mutual attraction is immediate, leading to a passionate and awkward night together, and the onset of an intensely charged bond. As they continue to push the sexual boundaries of ...
Style: melancholic, intense, psychological, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: sex, infidelity, threesome, friendship, love triangle, betrayal, loneliness, complex characters, college, haunted by the past, buddies, couple relations ...
Time: year 2002, year 1993, 90s, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa, europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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The Houseboy (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Distraught after he overhears his two 30-something lovers talking about finding a new "toy" to replace him, young Ricky looks for love through a series of random sexual encounters while house-sitting for the couple over the Christmas ...
Style: captivating, sentimental, psychological, emotional, sensual ...
Plot: gay interest, lgbt, gay, love triangle, couples, love affair, gender, lifestyle, city life, student, christmas, friendship ...
Time: 1930s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Blinder (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An ex footballer embroiled in a scandal returns hometown clear his name and reignite an old flame.
Style: realistic, uplifting, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, ambition, human spirit, against the odds, homecoming, sport team, rivalry, haunted by the past, hopes, friendship, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Madison (2001)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1971, air-conditioner repairman and boat enthusiast Jim McCormick entertains his desire to 'go down' as a legend in the record books when the Gold Cup hydroplane boat race improbably comes to his small town of Madison, Indiana. ...
Style: serious, feel good, realistic, melancholic, anamorphic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: ship, athlete's life, human spirit, follow your dream, against the odds, friendship, contests and competitions, rivalry, lifestyle, ambition, rising to stardom, hopes ...
Time: year 2001, 70s
Place: usa, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.2
 135
Crazy Canucks (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on the book White Circus by Ken Read, this is the story of the Canadian skiing legends that became the first North Americans to crack the Euro dominated World Cup Circuit in 1975
Style: serious, realistic, uplifting, captivating
Plot: skiing, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, underdog, olympics, ski, biopic, bare chested male, coach, religion, sport competition ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1974
Place: canada, europe, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.2
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Out Cold (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Animal House meets Casablanca in this outrageous snowboarding comedy. Rick Rambis and his friends are having the time of their lives on Bull Mountain until the legendary Papa Muntz' son decides to sell the mountain to sleazy land developer John ...
Style: funny, feel good, semi serious, hilarious, sex comedy ...
Plot: ski resort, skiing, stupidity, sarcasm, prank, snow, winter, social differences, teenage life, youth, buddies, love triangle ...
Place: alaska, antarctic, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Supercross (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Faced with the suspicious death of their father, two brothers must motivate one another to get back on their bikes and take the Las Vegas Motocross Championships by storm.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: human spirit, rivalry, against the odds, ambition, athlete's life, relationship vs career, friendship, lifestyle, contests and competitions, ego clash, rising to stardom, racing ...
Time: year 2005
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Hot Dog... The Movie (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a hopeful young American hot-dogger goes pole-to-pole with an arrogant Austrian pro, the snow really starts to fly! But as hot as it is on the mountain, it gets even hotter off when the pro's ex-girlfriend (Tweed) sets her eyes on the new ...
Style: sex comedy, humorous, sexual, retro, realistic ...
Plot: skiing, oral sex, lust, sex scene, snow, sex, winter, teenager, ski, male nudity, skater, sleaze ...
Time: 80s
Place: idaho, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Hide Away (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A successful businessman attempting to resurrect his life buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat.
Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: starting over, self discovery, friendship, hopes, haunted by the past, small town, father daughter relationship, death of wife, redemption, society, bittersweet, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
All the Right Moves (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could ...
Style: realistic, talky, melancholic, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: american football, high school, friendship, football, college, coach, small town, father son relationship, coming of age, student athlete, high school football, cheerleader ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Friends & Lovers (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Friends for ten years, a group of twenty-somethings head for the ski slopes as guests of Ian's father. (Ian and dad are estranged because dad worked too many hours when Ian was a lad.) Dad has something to say, but Ian won't listen. ...
Style: sexy, melancholic, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: sex, friendship, skiing, existentialism, relationships, honest, thirtysomething life, midlife crisis, infidelity, lifestyle, gay, male nudity ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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How I Got Lost (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: HOW I GOT LOST is the heartbreaking yet hopeful story of Andrew and Jake, two friends dealing with loss amidst events bigger than them. Andrew is the friend we all have, the one who convinces you to come along despite your better judgment. Talented ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, contemplative
Plot: self discovery, friendship, hopes, parents and children, buddies, introspection, best friend, on the road, estrangement, starting over, nothing to lose, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania, philadelphia, new york, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Annapolis (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jake Huard, from a shipbuilders family, promised his dying mother he'ld make it to Anapolis Naval Academy. Thanks to tenaciously bugging a Congressman, he's selected despite dubious grades. Once inside, Jake soon proves sub-standard ...
Style: inspirational, intense, serious, exciting, realistic ...
Plot: boxing, military training, u.s. navy, military, military academy, military life, underdog, bully, friendship, ambition, rivalry, relationships ...
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Place: maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Big Sur (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name.
Style: realistic, sincere, captivating, serious, independent film
Plot: beat generation, introspection, writer's life, friendship, friendship between men, mentally unstable, lifestyle, solitude, social relations, solitary, addiction, alcoholism ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: usa, california, san francisco
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40%
The Dive from Clausen's Pier (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Good boy Mike Mayer is looking at a fine future and enjoys life with Wisconsin small town friends and steady girlfriend Carrie Beal. Then a stupid accident, diving from the local pier when the water is too low, leaves him quadriplegic. As if that ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching
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Ice Castles (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Alexis Winston is a young girl who dreams of becoming a champion figure skater. While practicing, Alexis suffers a terrible accident that takes her sight and threatens to destroy her dreams. In the midst of feeling sorry for herself she falls in ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, realistic, serious, teen ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: figure skating, skating, athlete's life, follow your dream, human spirit, love and romance, lifestyle, hopes, contests and competitions, against the odds, rising to stardom, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
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Style: serious, suspense, captivating, realistic
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Audience: teens
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
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Story: The stunning Dreya Weber stars as a former top gymnast who discovers love and a new life path when she teams up with a dancer (played by former L.A. Lakers cheerleader Addie Yungmee) for an ambitious Las Vegas aerial act show.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sexual, independent film ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
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Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, romantic, entertaining ...
Plot: baseball, loneliness, love story, unlikely friendships, storytelling, looking for love, athlete's life, love and romance, training, major league, hopes, motivation ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: usa, detroit, new york, london, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Stealing Home (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Billy Wyatt (Harmon), a former high school and minor-league baseball baseball player receives a telephone call from his mother revealing that his former child-sitter, and later in his teens, his first love, Katie Chandler (Foster), has died. Wyatt ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, serious, realistic, sincere ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.4
 635
Arizona Sky (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jake and Kyle are two boys who grew up together in rural Arizona. They are best friends, and they begin to take their relationship to the next level when Jake's father moves him and his family away to California. Jake and Kyle can never forget ...
Style: realistic, psychological, emotional, captivating, serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Ordinary Sinner (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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Style: emotional, realistic, serious, sentimental, touching ...
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.3
 10K
Fat City (1972)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: realistic, atmospheric, neo noir, serious, captivating ...
Audience: manly
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Time: 20th century, year 1972, 70s
Place: california, usa, northern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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