Movies and TV shows like I SWIM
If you like "I SWIM" you are looking for psychological, captivating and thrilling movies or TV shows about / with swimming, friendship, rivalry, buddy, swimming pool, competition and teamwork themes of Drama genre shot in Hong Kong.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
I SWIM (2022)
39
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
TV show
Story:
This is a story of rivalry and friendship between two young swimmers; a tale of natural talent versus hard work. Talented swimmer Chung is a transfer student. In his new class, 4C, he meets a swim relay team led by Wing. Despite being proficient in all four styles, Wing is frustrated at his team’s losing streak to Class 4A. At his first swimming gala, Chung plans to show off his skills. Unfortunately, he shows his imperfect starting dives and lack of stamina instead. The mistake he makes in his starting dive even causes his team to lose. After the defeat, he decides to quit the relay match. However, after observing Chung’s freestyle performance, Wing starts teaching him techniques in starting dives and racing. Wing aims to beat Class 4A with the same team members, including Chung.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, inspirational, emotional, intense, realistic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
swimming, friendship, rivalry, buddy, swimming pool, competition, teamwork, friends, athlete and trainer, ambition, sport team, professional sports, competitor, athlete's life, youth, personal growth, adolescence, high school, determination, perseverance, coming of age, underdog, coaching, motivation, mentor ...
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to I SWIM
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, inspirational, emotional and psychological films and TV series with plots about coming of age, friendship, ambition, rivalry, youth, competition and perseverance mostly in Drama, Sport and Romance genres. Some movies like I SWIM: Rebound (2023), The Prince of Tennis (2008), Regatta: Kimi to ita eien (2006), Give It All (2005), Sharp (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
576
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Joong-Ang High School was once renowned for its high ranked basketball team, but as the years pass and victories grow fewer, the school's social worker Kang Yang-hyun who was a former minor league baseball player, becomes the head coach. Left ...
Style:
realistic, inspirational, captivating, entertaining, motivational ...
Plot:
basketball, high school sports, rivalry, teamwork, underdog, high school, high school basketball, ambition, athlete and trainer, basketball player, basketball team, competitor ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
busan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: China
TV show
Story:
The drama is about how tennis talents deal with the challenge. The drama continue the style and theme of last season, show us the tennis prince's growth and effort, and the way they won the championship.
Style:
psychological, captivating, inspirational, uplifting, motivational ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
tennis, friendship, teenager, tennis player, coming of age, competition, friends, sport team, follow your dream, adolescence, ambition, athlete's life ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Makoto is a promising oarsman at a University regatta team. One day, he loses his best friend by a tragic accident which he believes and blames himself for the very cause. Although he once leaves the team out of tremendous sense of responsibility, ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, realistic, intense ...
Plot:
ambition, rivalry, olympics, athlete and trainer, competitor, professional sports, problem, sport team, athlete's life, team, teamwork, university ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Ganbatte Ikimasshoi was a Japanese television drama for NTV about a girl who wants to start an all-girl rowing team. To do so she needs to find at least four other members. She is met with many challenges during each episode, e.g., finding enough ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, motivational, inspirational ...
Plot:
perseverance, determination, teamwork, direction and purpose, sport team, teenage life, athlete's life, ambition, schoolgirl, high school life, teenage girl, ambitious woman ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
30%
Movie in collections
31
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Lee Ok Rim is 15 years old. She likes imaging and has bright personality. She is very frank about her feelings. She also knows that she is pretty and uses that. At home she is the second child who is placed between an older sister who studies well ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, adolescence, high school life, high school, love triangle, coming of age, schoolboy, children, teenage protagonist, school, teenage life, teenager ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
TV show
Story:
Follows the ups and downs of a college football team.
Style:
realistic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
american football, young adult, football, team, teamwork, professional sports, young man, entertainment, youth, sporting event, sport team, sports fan ...
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
In pursuit of her dreams to become a figure skater, Ha-ru goes to Seoul where she is reunited with her stepbrother.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, inspirational, emotional, melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
figure skating, dream, ambition, skating, ice skater, brother sister relationship, katana, half brother, friendship, follow your dream, changing lives, lifestyle ...
Place:
korea, south korea, seoul
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
TV show
Story:
A story revolving around a debate club that is about to disband, and how its members try to revive it.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, inspirational, emotional ...
Plot:
competition, teamwork, relationships, rivalry, debate, grownups, school club, couple relations, conversation, adolescence vs adulthood, student, female student ...
Similarity:
27%
Movie in collections
23
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Miyanaga Saki, a first-year student at Kiyosumi High School, lacks enthusiasm for mahjong and plays it so that it will end with neither a win nor a loss. One day, she is influenced by Haramura Nodoka’s genius mahjong tactics and decides to join ...
Style:
anime, captivating, thrilling, tense, dramatic ...
Plot:
mahjong, high school, high school life, school club, tournament, japanese girl, teenager, school, contest, japanese woman, teenage protagonist, ambition ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
27%
223
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Tomoki Sakai (Kento Hayashi) is your average junior-high student. Fascinated by the diving skills of Yoichi Fujitani (Sosuke Ikemaytsu), an elite athlete born into a family of former Olympic divers, Tomoki joins the Mizuki Diving Club (MDC) where ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, inspirational, motivational ...
Plot:
diving, swimmer, swimming, relationships, athlete's life, sport team, athlete and trainer, financial problem, academy, teamwork, ambition, perseverance ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
High school student Noguchi learns that there isn't a single male softball team in the nearby area. He figures if he starts up a softball team, they are sure thing to go to the national tournament. He then persuades his friend Onitsuka to help ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, motivational ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, youth, rivalry, teenage life, ambition, contests and competitions, sport team, friends, buddies, social relations, coming of age, softball ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A group of “very talented” teenagers sing, dance, and perform their way to the top at the famous Keaton School of the Arts! From the disappointments of failure, to the new friendships and crowning achievements, being a student at Keaton means ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, psychological, disturbing, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, teenager, high school, dance school, school, singing, dance, performance art, adolescence, schoolboy, relationship problems, friends ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Drama series based on manga H2 by Adachi Mitsuru about two rival high school baseball games. The stars of each team, Hideo and Hiro, happen to be childhood friends.
Style:
psychological, semi serious, satirical, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
baseball, friendship, high school, teenager, rivalry, baseball player, ambition, professional sports, athlete's life, female protagonist, competitor, lifestyle ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Thailand
TV show
Story:
Hoping for a better future, grade eleven student Zen is working hard to compete for a scholarship to lift himself out of poverty. That hope is threatened when news about seniors on the team's drug use is spread by student journalist Lin, the ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, inspirational, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
basketball, boys love, gay, male protagonist, youth, high school, friendship, teamwork, teenage protagonist, adolescence, athlete and trainer, professional sports ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
TV show
Story:
Chloé, a star hockey player, wants to make her place on a men's AAA team. Between budding loves, friendships and betrayals, she tries to find her place on the ice and in life.
Style:
entertaining, serious, captivating, exciting, emotional ...
Plot:
hockey, friendship, betrayal, ice hockey, female protagonist, teamwork, female empowerment, student athlete, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, youth, sport team, love ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The Phantoms is a television movie inspired by the heart-warming, real-life events surrounding the 2009 New Brunswick provincial championship victory by the Bathurst High School (BHS Phantoms) boys varsity basketball team, a year after a terrible ...
Style:
uplifting, inspirational, disturbing, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
basketball, high school basketball, perseverance, resilience, hopes, road accident, community, high school, determination, teamwork, sport team, direction and purpose ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Endless competitions take place on the ping pong tables with two young men at the center. Xu Tan is physically weak but strongly passionate and Yu Kenan is unruly but talented. Despite their opposite personalities, Xu Tan and Yu Kenan's mirror ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, motivational, inspirational
Plot:
coming of age, table tennis, ping pong, rivalry, tournament, contests and competitions, athlete's life, professional rivalry, direction and purpose, sport team, ambitious, career ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
What does it take to become the ultimate volleyball player? The smash hit manga spikes its way onto the TV screen for the first time!
A smash hit manga spikes its way onto the TV screen for the first time! Kozue, a positive and cheerful high school ...
Style:
anime, psychological, captivating, thrilling, motivational ...
Plot:
volleyball, rivalry, ambition, high school, perseverance, determination, competition, female protagonist, teamwork, direction and purpose, aspiration, japanese woman ...
Place:
japan, mount fuji
Similarity:
24%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: China
TV show
Story:
Duan Yucheng is a high-spirited young man who loves high jump but is limited by his height, met his talent scout, the experienced athletics assistant Luo Na. In order to get more professional guidance and help, Duan Yucheng made every effort to ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, motivational, inspirational ...
Plot:
competition, track and field, coach, youth, passion, determination, training, resilience, athletics, perseverance, relationships, social problems ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Hiromi Oka decides to join the high school tennis club from the moment she saw the star player Reika's (Matsumoto) excellent and smashing play. However, once the tennis lesson began, Hiromi finds herself bored in the succession of simple ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, romantic, tension ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
tennis, rivalry, high school, personal growth, determination, perseverance, friendship, female protagonist, underdog, sport team, tennis player, love interest ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Hikuma Koichi was a saxophone player, but he suffers from the after-effects of an accident. Due to that, he turned his back on music. Hikuma Koichi finds hope in the high school brass band. The band consists of problem students. Koichi struggles to ...
Style:
inspirational, uplifting, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
high school life, high school, music, orchestra, friendship, redemption, youth, hopes, personal growth, brass band, teacher student relationship, coming of age ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A high school girl, Man-bok, who has to walk for four hours every day back and forth between home and her school due to the congenital motion sickness disorder, happens to begin her training as a speed walking athlete unexpectedly. Through the ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, inspirational, realistic ...
Plot:
teenager, female protagonist, coming of age, walking, athlete's life, track and field, teenage girl, schoolgirl, teenage life, athlete, athlete and trainer, underdog ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Nash Brooks, son of an NBA legend, moves to an elite LA high school. The court isn't the only competition he faces.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, fast paced
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
basketball, father son relationship, competition, high school, relationships, problem, family relations, social problems, schoolboy, teenager, athlete and trainer, teenage protagonist ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
24%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama
Country: China
TV show
Story:
After Lin Yu Jing's parents' divorce, she and her dad moved to a new city where she becomes seat mates with notoriously "ill-tempered" Shen Juan at their new school. She thought it would be difficult to integrate into a new ...
Style:
emotional, thrilling, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, coming of age, friendship, healing, self discovery, personal growth, high school life, young adult, teenage love, teenage life, teenage protagonist, teenager ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story:
In a Girls' Vocational High School in Geoje, six students dream to win a dance sports competition.
Style:
dramatic, entertaining, exciting, captivating, inspirational ...
Plot:
dance, coming of age, female friendship, dance club, high school, friendship, dancing, school, friends, girlfriend, shared dream, girls' school ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story:
An aspirational tale of three engineer friends, Akshay, Piyu and Papdya, who go on a journey from being 'be rojgaar' to creating 'rojgaar' by stumbling on a start-up idea and going back to their roots.
Style:
inspirational, captivating, thrilling, realistic, humorous
Plot:
startup, friendship, ambition, engineer, entrepreneurship, friends, engineering, unemployment, determination, innovation, middle class, slice of life ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
A volleyball coach and his players aim for success during which they develop stronger bond and friendship for each other as well as teamwork. This youthful story shows sportsmanship and heart thumping romance.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, semi serious, heartfelt, inspirational ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
volleyball, high school life, high school, teamwork, underdog, coach, ambition, athlete and trainer, sport team, professional rivalry, team, love affair ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
After Gaku Kitada, a talented mathematics scholar, suffers setbacks on his dream of becoming a mathematician, he meets Kai Asakura, a young but similarly talented chef, as he is running his own food business, and joins Kai in an attempt at something ...
Style:
culinary, thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
chef, food, cooking, restaurant, workplace, gourmet, personal growth, passion, restaurant owner, cookery, coworker, workplace situations ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
22%
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:
22%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The Academy is the training center of Apolo FC, one of the best soccer clubs in the world, where boys and girls fight for a shared dream: to succeed in the first team. Adrian, captain of the boys' youth team and son of a former club legend, ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, multicultural
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
football team, football, soccer, ambition, inequality, rivalry, youth, academy, women's football (soccer), athlete and trainer, soccer coach, teamwork ...
Similarity:
22%
Related movie lists
