Movies like The Big Green

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The Big Green (1995)
 5.5
 11K
The Big Green (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a depressed Texas town, British foreign exchange teacher Anna attempts to inject some life into her hopeless kids by introducing them to soccer. They're terrible at first, but Anna and her football-hero assistant whip them into shape. As they work overtime, the pair help kids build their self-esteem and also get involved in solving family squabbles.
Style: sentimental, light, inspirational, melancholic, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, epic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: soccer, school, underdog, childhood, youth, athlete and trainer, football, teachers and students, high school life, against the odds, small town life, friendship, human spirit, family life, follow your dream, rivalry, contests and competitions, athlete's life, teacher, small town, immigrant, teenager, batman, american football, profanity ...
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
Keyword: sport, oldies, gangsters

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Most similar movies to The Big Green

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, semi serious and realistic films with plots about ambition, rivalry, underdog, youth, contests and competitions, hopes and sport team mostly in Sport, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like The Big Green: D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994), Bella and the Bulldogs (2015), Necessary Roughness (1991), D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996), The Mighty Ducks (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After Gordon Bombay's hockey comeback is cut short he is named coach of Team USA Hockey for the Junior Goodwill Games. Bombay reunites the Mighty Ducks and introduces a few new players, however, he finds himself distracted by his newfound fame ...
Style: spectacular, epic, hilarious, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: ice hockey, hockey, competition, childhood, olympics, underdog, youth, friendship, teenager, winter, athlete and trainer, child ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place: minnesota, los angeles, iceland, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bella and the Bulldogs (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A head cheerleader's life takes an unexpected twist when her rifle-like throwing arm takes her from the sidelines to becoming her middle school’s starting quarterback. Bella Dawson is a confident, caring and talented teenager, who suddenly ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: american football, teenager, sport team, cheerleading, teenage girl, cheerleader, school, youth, friends, best friend, middle school, silly humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Necessary Roughness (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When the Texas Southern Armadillos football team is disqualified for cheating and poor grades, the University is forced to pick from a team that actually goes to school. Will they even win a single game?
Style: entertaining, inspirational, light, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, manly, kids, boys' night
Plot: american football, underdog, football team, sport team, college, football, happy ending, transformation, human spirit, rivalry, hopes, against the odds ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: texas, usa, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The Ducks are offered scholarships at Eden Hall Academy but struggle with their new coach's methods and come under pressure from the board to retain their scholarships before their big game against the Varsity team.
Style: epic, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot: ice hockey, hockey, competition, high school, olympics, childhood, college, school, coming of age, underdog, winter, happy ending ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Mighty Ducks (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hockey team for his community service. Gordon has experience on the ice, but isn't eager to return to hockey, a point hit home by his tense dealings ...
Style: inspirational, humorous, sweet, light, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot: hockey, ice hockey, sport team, happy ending, childhood, athlete and trainer, competition, underdog, foe turned friend, youth, redemption, self discovery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: minnesota, minneapolis minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 10K
Ladybugs (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: To climb the corporate ladder to success, a guy agrees to coach the company's all girl soccer team with the help of his secret weapon: his fiancee's son.
Style: humorous, feel good, sentimental, uplifting, offbeat ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: cross dressing, soccer, football, teenager, childhood, youth, farce, milf, women's football (soccer), american football, bike, underdog ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
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Wildcats (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite snickers from fellow staff members and her former husband.
Style: feel good, entertaining, inspirational, light, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: american football, football, coach, high school football, high school, rivalry, sport team, ambition, athlete and trainer, mother daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, custody battle ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Soccer Dog: The Movie (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A heart-warming comedy about the friendship between the new kid in town and a soccer-playing dog on the lam from the dog-catcher. It's up to these two underdogs to win the PeeWee Soccer League championship game.
Style: independent film, semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: soccer, football, youth, dog, underdog, hopes, athlete and trainer, orphan, odd couple, athlete's life, lifestyle, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Rookie of the Year (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 12-year-old Henry Rowengartner, whose late father was a minor league baseball player, grew up dreaming of playing baseball, despite his physical shortcomings. After Henry's arm is broken while trying to catch a baseball at school, the tendon in ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, exciting, epic, hilarious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, teens, family outing ...
Plot: baseball, childhood, children, underdog, sport team, contests and competitions, mentor, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, ambition, rivalry, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, year 1993, 90s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sentimental sequel film finds the Bears, somehow, the little league champions of California. As a result, the team is invited to play a between-games exhibition at the Houston Astrodome with the local champs, the Toros. Kelly Leak, the Bears' ...
Style: family comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Audience: teens
Plot: baseball, childhood, high school, youth, redemption, underdog, sport team, friends, family relations, estrangement, parents and children, against the odds ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: texas, austin texas, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Longshots (2008)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.
Style: feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: american football, human spirit, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, battle of the sexes, football, rivalry, youth, underdog, gender, black, hip hop ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Slam Dunk Ernest (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Ernest P. Worrell becomes a basketball star after an angel bearing an uncanny resemblance to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gives him a pair of magic sneakers.
Style: not serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: pre-teens, teens, family outing, date night
Plot: basketball, humour, satire, weirdo, partner, friends, disorder, power relations, sport team, contests and competitions, misfit, athlete and trainer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 2.6
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The Minis (2007)
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 and trainer, hopes, follow your dream, ambition, rivalry, hotshot hero, contests and competitions, lifestyle, athlete's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Bad News Bears (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
Style: inspirational, intense, talky, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: baseball, underdog, youth, baseball coach, coach, childhood, competition, unlikely friendships, sport team, motorcycle, human spirit, contests and competitions ...
Time: 20th century, year 1976, 70s
Place: california, usa, san francisco, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 31K
Little Giants (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When Danny O'Shea's daughter is cut from the Peewee football team just for being a girl, he decides to form his own team, composed of other ragtag players who were also cut. Can his team really learn enough to beat the elite team, coached ...
Style: feel good, slapstick comedy, romantic comedy, funny, epic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: american football, underdog, football, cheerleader, childhood, coach, sexism, brother brother relationship, father daughter relationship, sibling rivalry, wager, single father ...
Time: 90s
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Alley Cats Strike (2000)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A group of hip retro teenage outsiders become involved in an interschool bowling rivalry.
Style: uplifting, humorous, feel good, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: bowling, youth, ambition, friendship, contests and competitions, misfit, unlikely partners, rivalry, sport team, social differences, disorder, high school ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
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The Sandlot (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. The neighborhood baseball guru Rodriquez takes Smalls under his wing. They fall into adventures involving baseball, treehouse sleep-ins, the ...
Style: feel good, funny, sentimental, teen, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, teen drama
Plot: baseball, childhood, coming of age, friendship, dog, adolescence, small town, boy, bullying, child, team, summer ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 90s, year 1962
Place: utah, california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
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Grind (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Four skaters follow their idol on his summer tour in an attempt to get noticed, get sponsored, and become stars themselves.
Style: humorous, entertaining, funny, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: skateboard, road trip, friendship, underdog, high school, friendship between men, lifestyle, rivalry, ambition, partner, contests and competitions, college ...
Time: year 2003, y2k, 2000s
Place: santa monica california, tucson arizona, london, england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
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Cool Runnings (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team.
Style: feel good, inspirational, funny, hilarious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: underdog, reggae, snow, childhood, olympics, winter, kids and family, heartwarming, racing, transformation, african american, winter olympics ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1988, year 1987
Place: canada, caribbean, antarctic, jamaica
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 8K
Jump In! (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Story revolves around a young boxer, Izzy Daniels, who trains to follow in his father's footsteps by winning the Golden Glove. When his friend, Mary, however, asks him to substitute for a team member in a Double Dutch tournament, the young man ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, teen
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: human spirit, friendship, athlete's life, follow your dream, against the odds, ambition, lifestyle, teenage life, teenager, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.0
 1K
Soccer Mom (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A warm-hearted comedy about a compulsive soccer mom who masquerades as a famous Italian soccer star hired to coach her daughter's floundering soccer team, then struggles frantically to keep her wacky charade going long enough to see the girls ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, realistic
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: soccer, contests and competitions, sport team, family life, hidden identity, rivalry, lifestyle, underdog, hopes, disorder, parents and children, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Sandlot 2 (2005)
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, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot: sport team, youth, baseball, friendship, vengeance, partner, friends, teenage life, ambition, coming of age, buddies, rivalry ...
Time: year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Little Big League (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When the owner of the Minnesota Twins passes away, he bequeaths the team to his preteen grandson. The newly minted head honcho quickly appoints himself manager, causing unrest in an organisation that struggles to take orders from a 12-year-old.
Style: humorous, epic, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: baseball, childhood, coming of age, youth, teenager, motivation, mathematics, sport team, boy, friends, power relations, family relations ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: minnesota, usa, minneapolis minnesota, bronx new york city, boston ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
How to Eat Fried Worms (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: During the first day of his new school year, a fifth grade boy squares off against a bully and winds up accepting a dare that could change the balance of power within the class.
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot: boy, youth, coming of age, bully, friendship, contests and competitions, parents and children, bullying, love and romance, rivalry, friends, couples ...
Time: year 2006
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 22K
Like Mike (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Calvin and his friends, who all live in an orphanage, find old shoes with the faded letters MJ connected to a powerline. One stormy night, they go to get the shoes when Calvin and the shoes are struck by lightning. Calvin now has unbelievable ...
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, touching, black comedy ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: basketball, youth, sport team, teenage life, wish come true, teenager, orphanage, rising to stardom, prodigy, hopes, superhuman powers, ambition ...
Place: los angeles, england, europe, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Soccer Dog: European Cup (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Soccer Dog: European Cup opens with the titular hero, Kimble, escaping the clutches of an evil scientist, bent on performing animal experiments. Our plucky canine hero then falls into the hands of Zack (Jake Thomas), an American boy who's been ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: soccer, children, follow your dream, ambition, athlete's life, human spirit, contests and competitions, rivalry, disorder, family relations, hopes, against the odds ...
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 3.8
 370
Home Team (1998)
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, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Plot: soccer, football, american football, youth, contests and competitions, lifestyle, underdog, hopes, ambition, rivalry, athlete's life, gambling ...
Time: 90s
Place: montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.1
 14K
Rebound (2005)
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, happy ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: basketball, college, sport team, youth, underdog, follow your dream, lifestyle, human spirit, against the odds, prodigy, ambition, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Sandlot: Heading Home (2007)
Genre: Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A successful professional baseball player gets his ego in check via an unreality check when he travels back in time to his boyhood sandlot ball-playing days.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, saga
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids, teens
Plot: baseball, youth, friendship, sport team, partner, friends, buddies, hopes, athlete and trainer, underdog, ambition, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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