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Odd Man Rush (2020)
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When Harvard hockey’s Bobby Sanders lands in Sweden’s minor leagues, his relationship with the girl at the local market forces him to confront the reality of his childhood NHL dream before the hockey gods intervene.
Style:
light, thought provoking, touching, realistic, semi serious, funny
Plot:
first love, believe in yourself, follow your dream, ambition, moral dilemma, ice hockey, friendship, youth, teenage girl, love and romance, teenage life, rivalry, sport team, talent, lifestyle, life philosophy, athlete's life, blind ambition, dream, hockey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about ambition, rivalry, sport team, lifestyle, contests and competitions, friends and underdog mostly in Comedy, Sport and Family genres. Some movies like Odd Man Rush: Go Figure (2005), Boxboarders! (2007), Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice (2002), Like Mike 2: Streetball (2006), Bring It On: All or Nothing (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Katelin Kingsford, an Olympic hopeful figure skater wants to train with a Russian figure skating coach. In order to go to go to the school that Natasha is at, Katelin gets a scholarship playing on the girls hockey team.
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semi serious, feel good, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
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teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, teen drama
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figure skating, ice hockey, skating, talent, rivalry, hockey, ambition, follow your dream, athlete's life, teenage life, friendship, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A pair of thrill-seeking nerds pioneer a new extreme craze that doesn't so much sweep the nation as portions of a small faction of their high school. The craze is 'boxboarding,' really just rolling down a hill with your vision ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
ambition, follow your dream, partner, friends, uninhibited rivalry, contests and competitions, high school life, celebrity culture, beach, rivalry, school, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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With the original Hanson Brothers still on the same minor league ice hockey team, the Chiefs are sold to a new owner who gives them a female coach and puts them in a league in which they are to be regularly humiliated by an opposing Harlem ...
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sex comedy, exciting, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hockey, ice hockey, profanity, rivalry, hockey player, pun, olympics, winter olympics, ice skater, sport team, violent content, against the odds ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nebraska, pennsylvania, usa
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61%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Christina Milian stars as sassy cheer captain Lina Cruz, whose world is turned upside-down when her family moves from the urban streets of East Los Angeles to the sunny beach town of Malibu. At her new school, Lina clashes with Avery, the ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleader, cheerleading, teenage love, interracial couple, lifestyle, youth, high school, sport team, love and romance, teenage life, rivalry, high school hunk ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
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usa, malibu california, florida, los angeles
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58%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Another young boy with 'hoop dreams' finds an old pair of Michael Jordan's sneakers and can suddenly play ball like the greatest player in the world.
Style:
realistic, humorous, black comedy, semi serious
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
true love, basketball, hopes, young lovers, friendship, follow your dream, underdog, rivalry, athlete's life, contests and competitions, buddies, ambition ...
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56%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A transfer student at a rough high school tries joining the cheer-leading squad and finds that she not only has to face off against the head cheerleader, but also against her former school in preparation for a cheer-off competition.
Style:
teen, entertaining, light, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleader, high school, cheerleading, dancing, teenage girl, high school life, dance, hip hop, friendship, school, sport team, underdog ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
50%
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, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
baseball, high school, coming of age, college, graduation, teen angst, partner, performer's life, sport team, friends, couples, power relations ...
Time:
70s
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Get ready for a rough-and-tumble comedy that knows how to kick some serious puck!
Style:
realistic, exciting, feel good, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hockey, ice hockey, profanity, sport team, social relations, rivalry, athlete and trainer, hopes, orphan, underdog, lifestyle, against the odds ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south carolina, usa
Similarity:
47%
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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, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
hip hop, teenage love, follow your dream, dancer's life, ambition, lifestyle, hopes, rivalry, love and romance, contests and competitions, youth, high school life ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When new students can't get onto their college cheerleading team, they form their own squad and prepare for a cheer off.
Style:
teen, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleading, cheerleader, competition, dancing, teenager, high school, sport team, teenage girl, college, campus, hip hop, dance ...
Time:
2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
43%
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's life, hotshot hero, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, contests and competitions, hopes, rivalry, follow your dream, underdog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, venice beach california
Similarity:
43%
256
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sent to San Francisco to spend the summer with his aunt, teenager Mario Vandetti makes fast friends with a group of neighborhood kids and encouraged by a caring priest they soon form a basketball team, becoming contenders in a city tournament.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleader, teenage life, friendship, against the odds, human spirit, ambition, follow your dream, parents and children, rivalry, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, athlete's life ...
Place:
usa, san francisco
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, "Wild Bill" Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations ...
Style:
light, inspirational, entertaining, feel good, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
basketball, female protagonist, basketball coach, fish out of water, limousine driver, life philosophy, follow your dream, hopes, rivalry, ambition, friendship, against the odds ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
39%
299
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Hilarity ensues when friends Jeff and Derek try to enter the world of back bar wrestling; where the most beautiful girls could beat the tar out of both of them without a second thought. Even with a little help from the notorious Buckle Girls, can ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Plot:
ambition, friendship, hotshot hero, love and romance, lifestyle, rivalry, contests and competitions, on the road, survival, wrestling, teenager, heroes ...
Time:
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39%
47K
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
2 Guys. 300 Girls. You Do the Math. The two most popular guys in high school decide to ditch football camp for cheerleader camp. For the girls and for the glory.
Style:
sex comedy, light, humorous, romantic, funny ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleading, cheerleader, high school, fall in love, football, american football, female nudity, bare breasts, youth, love and romance, temptation, gender ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, illinois
Similarity:
38%
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:
semi serious, realistic, uplifting, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
baseball, youth, new york yankees, baseball player, baseball coach, coach, sport team, partner, contests and competitions, obsessive quest, ambition, rising to stardom ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, florida
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Norway
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Swedish Lucas moves from Stockholm to a small Norwegian town, and immediately falls in love with Susanne, the goal keeper of the local girls' soccer team. He becomes axquanted with the overweight, sex-fixated son of the coach. With him as a ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, sincere, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
football, sport team, contests and competitions, fall in love, rivalry, social relations, ambition, youth, buddies, gain trust, village, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
38%
14K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An acclaimed college hoops coach is demoted to a junior varsity team after a public meltdown.
Style:
entertaining, feel good, touching, funny, black comedy ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
basketball, college, sport team, youth, follow your dream, underdog, lifestyle, against the odds, ambition, prodigy, teenage life, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fourth 'Bring It On' movie is set at a cheerleader camp in Florida with a 'West Side Story' musical feel has the female captain of the West Side Sharks meeting and romancing a male member of the East Coast Jets amid their ...
Style:
teen, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleader, cheerleading, hottie, dancing, teenage girl, college, nubile girl, forbidden love, dance, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
With Blue Mountain State football star Thad Castle recently signing a multi-million dollar NFL contract, his teammates and college life seem like a distant memory. However, when a new school dean threatens to clean up the BMS image by auctioning off ...
Style:
sex comedy, funny, not serious, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
american football, abuse, college, sport team, youth, athlete's life, social relations, university, friends, ambition, teenage life, disorder ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A comedic romp that celebrates the power of friendship to turn your life around, Dias de Futbol introduces us to Antonio, an ex-convict and amateur shrink who convinces his pals that the best way to overcome their midlife crises and lack of success ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic
Plot:
soccer, marriage, friendship, starting over, athlete's life, ambition, follow your dream, introspection, lifestyle, contests and competitions, rivalry, sport team ...
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Sportswriter George Plimpton poses as a rookie quarterback for the Detroit Lions for a "Sports Illustrated" article.
Style:
slapstick, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot:
american football, football, writers, coach, talent show, sport team, power relations, athlete's life, ego clash, journalism, lifestyle, rivalry ...
Time:
60s
Place:
detroit, usa
Similarity:
35%
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:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, talky ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, gambling, friends, rivalry, follow your dream, lifestyle, against the odds, buddies, ambition, couple relations, athlete's life, hopes ...
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
American football coach Chuck Dichter has worked wonders with the Buffalo Bills, and is even confident to crown his career with a Super Bowl victory, but before the play-offs an oyster food-poisoning wipes out his first team for a month. Dan Heller, ...
Style:
humorous, serious, touching, realistic, uplifting
Plot:
american football, underdog, lifestyle, human spirit, ambition, athlete's life, against the odds, hopes, sport team, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A former footballer living in Brittany enlists his old teammates to help the local fisherman to win some games in order to raise money and save jobs.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, touching, realistic, funny ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
buddies, sport team, ambition, working class, contests and competitions, lifestyle, self discovery, hopes, down on your luck, social relations, athlete and trainer, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, brittany, europe
Similarity:
34%
395
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Henry Butler (Steve Guttenberg) is a professional athlete with a little Pete Rose in him. His athletic interests go beyond the playing field and into the gambling dens. Convicted for his addiction, the soccer player is assigned to community service ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
soccer, american football, football, youth, underdog, hopes, contests and competitions, lifestyle, athlete's life, rivalry, ambition, addiction ...
Time:
90s
Place:
montreal
Similarity:
34%
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, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
baseball, sport team, youth, friendship, vengeance, partner, friends, teenage life, contests and competitions, coming of age, buddies, rivalry ...
Time:
year 1972
Similarity:
34%
696
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An Olympic Gold medalist is hired to coach the boys basketball team. But when Coach Randy Rawlings arrives, the school's sexist principal discovers he hired a woman. Blocked from firing her due to discrimination laws, he tries to make sure the ...
Style:
grindhouse, sex comedy, independent film, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, sexism, female athlete, power of love, love, school, partner, power relations, sport team, social relations, dedicated educator, rivalry ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school champs, challenge the current high school girls’ state champs to raise money for breast cancer prevention. Sparks fly as the women go to comic extremes to ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, captivating, funny ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
cheerleader, breast cancer, rivalry, basketball, contests and competitions, against the odds, friendship, strong female presence, sport team, underdog, ambition, menopause ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austin texas, usa, texas
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An aspiring actor whose career is in the dumps, exploits his amazing bowling skills to take the PBA by storm and becomes rich and famous, only to lose his best girl and best friend...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, parody, sex comedy
Plot:
friendship, bowling, ambition, misfit, contests and competitions, farce, athlete's life, lifestyle, rivalry, friends, destiny, fired from the job ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
akron ohio, portland oregon
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33%
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