Movies like Balls of Fury

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Balls of Fury (2007)
 5.3
 45K
Balls of Fury (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Randy Daytona was a child ping pong prodigy who lost his chance at Olympic gold when his father is murdered by the mysterious Feng over a gambling debt. 15yrs later he's down on his luck and scraping a living doing seedy back room shows in Vegas; when the FBI turn up and ask for his help to take down Feng... who just happens to love Ping Pong.
Style: parody, humorous, funny, stylized, exciting, not serious, hilarious, spoof, confusing, spooky ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: rivalry, redemption, olympics, fbi, ping pong, prodigy, athlete and trainer, ambition, talent, contests and competitions, hopes, underdog, dumb, satire, vengeance, tournament, rags to riches, death, espionage, competition, strong female lead, game, contest, undercover, revenge ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 21st century, contemporary
Place: german democratic republic, latin america, seoul, central america, reno nevada
Keyword: sport, compilation, chinese, german, short shorts, gangsters, cricket the game, buddy movie

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, funny and hilarious films with plots about silly humor, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, underdog, profanity and friends mostly in Comedy, Sport and Crime genres. Some movies like Balls of Fury: The Benchwarmers (2006), The Longest Yard (2005), The Comebacks (2007), Mean Machine (2001), Happy Gilmore (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight back: dodgeball. Aided by a ...
Style: humorous, funny, hilarious, slapstick, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: underdog, against the odds, dumb, coach, tournament, competition, cheerleader, pirate, redemption, rivalry, contests and competitions, gym ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Benchwarmers (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league squads.
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: baseball, youth, mentor, contests and competitions, ambition, coming of age, bullying, group of friends, clumsiness, vengeance, millionaire, pizza ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Longest Yard (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Pro quarter-back, Paul Crewe and former college champion and coach, Nate Scarboro are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in ...
Style: entertaining, funny, inspirational, hilarious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: prison, american football, underdog, prison life, prison guard, football, redemption, adaptation, betrayal, warden, ex athlete, jail ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, san diego california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.3
 12K
The Comebacks (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A comedy that spoofs the inspirational sports movies, The Comebacks tells the story of an out-of-luck coach, Lambeau Fields, who takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process, this ...
Style: parody, humorous, spoof, melancholic, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: baseball, american football, football, coach, rivalry, college, social relations, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, against the odds, athlete's life, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Lifelong friends and national idols Ricky Bobby and Cal Naughton Jr. have earned their NASCAR stripes with their uncanny knack of finishing races in the first and second slots, respectively, and slinging catchphrases like "Shake and bake!" ...
Style: funny, humorous, slapstick, exciting, parody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: car race, racing, farce, sport competition, stupidity, auto racing, betrayal, satire, competition, comeback, championship, teamwork ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 42K
Mean Machine (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Disgraced ex-England captain (Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan) is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. These prisoners ...
Style: funny, sexy, entertaining, witty, inspirational ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: soccer, prison, underdog, soccer match, justice, redemption, fixed match, prison life, corruption, brutality, prison gang, ex athlete ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 246K
Happy Gilmore (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore -- whose unconventional approach and antics on the grass courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin -- is determined to win a PGA tournament so he can save his granny's house with the prize ...
Style: funny, feel good, hilarious, slapstick, laugh out loud ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: golf, dumb, underdog, rivalry, anger, hockey, eccentricity, ambition, stupidity, contests and competitions, against the odds, friends ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.3
 177K
Blades of Glory (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a much-publicized ice-skating scandal strips them of their gold medals, two world-class athletes skirt their way back onto the ice via a loophole that allows them to compete together as a pairs team.
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, hilarious, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: skating, competition, olympics, figure skating, farce, rivalry, championship, friendship, life philosophy, coach, satire, ambition ...
Time: year 2007, year 2013, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit, montreal, north korea, ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Johnny Dangerously (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the 1930s, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
Style: funny, parody, spoof, humorous, light ...
Plot: gangster, organized crime, chase, rivalry, cons and scams, dishonesty, rise to the top, goofy hero, disorder, mobster, satire, crime boss ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1910s, year 1935
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.1
 20K
7 Days in Hell (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
Story: A fictional documentary-style expose on the rivalry between two tennis stars who battled it out in a 1999 match that lasted seven days.
Style: parody, funny, stylized, light, not serious ...
Plot: tennis, adaptation, redemption, storytelling, irreverent, technology, athlete's life, contests and competitions, rivalry, satire, tennis player, gay ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Winning Season (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A comedy centered on a has-been coach who is given a shot at redemption when he's asked to run his local high school's girls basketball team
Style: humorous, sincere, inspirational, light, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: basketball, coach, high school, contests and competitions, ex athlete, youth, misfit, sport team, teenage life, ambition, hopes, friends ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.1
 177K
The Waterboy (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher's hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone-crushing power might vault his team into the playoffs.
Style: parody, funny, humorous, hilarious, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, manly, girls' night
Plot: football, bullying, college, social outcast, underdog, american football, farce, rags to riches, mentor, ridicule, dumb, foul language ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: louisiana, usa, new orleans, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When the incompetent Officer Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.
Style: parody, spoof, funny, humorous, detective ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, family outing, date night
Plot: police, deadpan, stupidity, investigation, assassin, satire, gunfight, creativity, sarcasm, cop, dimwit, terrorist ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place: los angeles, usa, california, beirut lebanon
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.5
 66K
BASEketball (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop & Remer, invent a new game playing basketball, using baseball rules. When the game becomes a huge success, they, along with a billionaire's help, form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone ...
Style: parody, humorous, absurd, spoof, not serious ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: baseball, basketball, friends, farce, unlikely friendships, underdog, business, partner, rivalry, rise to the top, ambition, satire ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Reno 911!: Miami (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A rag-tag team of Reno cops are called in to save the day after a terrorist attack disrupts a national police convention in Miami Beach during spring break. Based on the Comedy Central series.
Style: parody, funny, humorous, mockumentary, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: police, police investigation, writers, justice, incompetent police, law enforcement, fighting crime, disorder, buddies, save the day, satire, masturbation ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida, miami, miami beach, usa, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.8
 86K
Semi-Pro (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jackie Moon is the owner, promoter, coach, and star player of the Flint Michigan Tropics of the American Basketball Association (ABA). In 1976 before the ABA collapses, the National Basketball Association (NBA) plans to merge with the best teams of ...
Style: funny, inspirational, entertaining, stylized, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: basketball, championship, sport team, coach, mentor, competition, basketball team, justice, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, rivalry ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.9
 91K
Kingpin (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After bowler Roy Munson swindles the wrong crowd and is left with a hook for a hand, he settles into impoverished obscurity. That is, until he uncovers the next big thing: an Amish kid named Ishmael. So, the corrupt and the hopelessly naïve hit the ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, feel good, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bowling, road trip, on the road, older woman younger man, culture clash, mentor, fish out of water, success, against the odds, championship, prodigy, contests and competitions ...
Time: 90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1969, year 1979 ...
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, nevada, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Replacements (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty ...
Style: feel good, humorous, inspirational, intense, realistic ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: american football, underdog, football, cheerleading, transformation, adaptation, hopes, rivalry, contests and competitions, against the odds, athlete and trainer, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, y2k, 80s, 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Mafia! (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
Style: parody, spoof, funny, light, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, mafia, father son relationship, farce, dumb, stupidity, multiple storylines, satire, justice, adaptation, goofy hero, assassination ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, year 1938, year 1967, year 1933
Place: italy, sicily, usa, europe, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he is to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.. this adds to Frank's ...
Style: parody, spoof, hilarious, humorous, funny ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: farce, police, terrorism, law enforcement, sexual humor, stupidity, undercover, gangster, race against time, save the day, master criminal, danger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1988, year 1994, 70s
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Great White Hype (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When the champ's promoter, Rev. Sultan, decides something new is needed to boost the marketability of the boxing matches, he searches and finds the only man to ever beat the champ. The problem is that he isn't a boxer anymore and he's ...
Style: humorous, clever, stylized, entertaining, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boxing, boxer, satire, justice, adaptation, athlete's life, contests and competitions, rivalry, investigation, cons and scams, power relations, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, cleveland ohio, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.8
 23K
Bad News Bears (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the head ...
Style: stylized, semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: baseball, mentor, coming of age, human spirit, rivalry, against the odds, ambition, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, softball, parents and children, hopes ...
Time: year 2005, 20th century, 70s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.2
 76K
Major League (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When Rachel Phelps inherits the Cleveland Indians from her deceased husband, she's determined to move the team to a warmer climate -- but only a losing season will make that possible, which should be easy given the misfits she's hired. ...
Style: funny, humorous, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: baseball, underdog, rivalry, professional sports, ambition, major league, rise to the top, contests and competitions, follow your dream, against the odds, misfit, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: miami, ohio, florida, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The Ringer (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Pressured by a greedy uncle (Brian Cox) and a pile of debt, lovable loser Steve Barker (Knoxville) resorts to an unthinkable, contemptible, just-crazy-enough-to-work scheme. He pretends to be mentally challenged to rig the upcoming Special Olympics ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, hilarious, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mentally challenged, rivalry, running, friendship, love and romance, lie, gambling, pretense, track and field, disability, down syndrome, mental disorder ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.8
 162K
White Chicks (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. As punishment, they are forced to escort a pair of socialites to the Hamptons, where they're going to be used as bait for a kidnapper. But when the girls realize ...
Style: humorous, funny, satirical, parody, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: cross dressing, fbi, dumb, fish out of water, working undercover, gender bending, buddy cop, gender disguise, undercover, sisters, stereotypes, chase ...
Time: year 2004, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Let's Go to Prison (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When a career criminal's plan for revenge is thwarted by unlikely circumstances, he puts his intended victim's son in his place by putting him in prison...and then joining him.
Style: funny, humorous, light, entertaining, satirical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prison, friendship, justice, stoner, storytelling, partner, jury, jail, revenge, mentor, prison gang, held captive ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 4.7
 14K
Corky Romano (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangster, named Pops Romano, who calls upon Corky to infiltrate the local FBI and retrieve and destroy evidence being used to incriminate Pops for ...
Style: humorous, light, absurd, funny, not serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: gangster, undercover, unlikely criminals, fish out of water, goofy hero, organized crime, espionage, family relations, disorder, dumb, mafia, farce ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Benchwarmers 2: Breaking Balls (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A washed-up baseball player becomes an attorney. He gets a chance at redemption when his boss asks him to manage the company softball team in hopes of winning a championship.
Style: funny, feel good, captivating, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: baseball, ambition, against the odds, rivalry, team, baseball team, contests and competitions, group of friends, underdog, mentor, adult humor, clumsiness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Major League II (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Those Cleveland Indians are at it again! After losing in the ALCS the year before, the Indians are determined to make it into the World Series this time! First, though, they have to contend with Rachel Phelps again when she buys back the team. Also, ...
Style: clever, funny, smart, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: manly, family outing, teens
Plot: baseball, voodoo, underdog, coach, sport competition, racing, exodus, guts, satire, tournament, competition, radio ...
Time: 90s
Place: cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.1
 3K
Knucklehead (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The film centers on a fight promoter (Mark Feuerstein) deeply in debt to his crooked rival. Desperate for a new fighter that will help him win back everything he owes, the promoter catches a break when a 450-pound church handyman (Paul "Big ...
Style: not serious, exciting, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disorder, contests and competitions, friendship, athlete's life, buddies, ambition, against the odds, partner, misfit, lifestyle, wrestler, competition ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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