Playing catch movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant playing catch movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out touching, realistic, independent film, feel good, cult classic and humorous films and TV shows about / with playing catch, family relations, father son relationship, boy, death, friendship, youth, coming of age, teenager and husband wife relationship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as playing catch: The Christmas Secret (2014), The Sandlot (1993), A Painted House (2003), Local Color (2006), The Adam Project (2022), Swan Song (2021), Passing (2021), Instant Family (2018), A Stranger to Love (1996), Sleeping Giant (2015).

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The Christmas Secret (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: While her life is falling apart, single mother Christine finds a magical family heirloom that leads to love and good fortune during Christmas.
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, romantic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, love and romance, true love, single parent, life turned upside down, downfall, family problems, couples, down on your luck, parents and children, custody ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
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 7.8
 102K
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
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A Painted House (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop. Meanwhile, the boy dreams of living in better conditions. However, with this particularly tough farming ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot: youth, coming of age, family relations, lifestyle, self discovery, hopes, farm, poverty, survival, nature, farmer, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1952
Place: arkansas, usa
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 6.8
 2K
Local Color (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. A talented but troubled 18-year-old aspiring artist befriends a brilliant elderly alcoholic painter who has turned his back on not only art but life. The ...
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: painter, self discovery, friendship, youth, family relations, parents and children, artists and showbiz, unsupportive parent, art, inspiration, intergenerational friendship, mentor ...
Time: year 2006, year 1991, year 1974, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa, new york
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The Adam Project (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.
Style: enigmatic, funny, mysterious, disturbing, motivational ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: time travel, father, time, child, suv, female warrior, travel, space, assignment, death of father, astronaut, dystopia ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2020s
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 7.0
 3K
Swan Song (2021)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An aging hairdresser escapes his nursing home to embark on an odyssey across his small town to style a dead woman's hair for her funeral, rediscovering his sparkle along the way.
Style: disturbing, sincere, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, homosexual, gay bar, small town, drag queen, gay friend, gay father, gay interest, gay couple, lgbt, retirement home ...
Time: 90s
Place: ohio
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 6.7
 16K
Passing (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who's passing as white.
Style: black and white, anamorphic, feel good, period drama
Plot: racism, childhood, jealousy, african american, lesbian, black, interwar period, demonic possession, women, woman, destiny, black history ...
Time: 1920s, year 1929, 2020s
Place: harlem, new york city, new york, harlem, chicago, hawaii
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 7.3
 119K
Instant Family (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from ...
Style: feel good, sweet, funny, sincere, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, teens
Plot: adoption, parenting, foster home, foster parent, adoptive father adopted son relationship, adolescence, couples, parents and children, family relations, court hearing, children, anger ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: usa, california
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A Stranger to Love (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In this Hallmark story, Allan is a normal middleaged man with a wife and two kids. When Alan is suddenly attacked one night, he loses his memory, leading his family to believe that he is dead.
Plot: car theft, chef, memory loss, missing person, presumed dead, homecoming, missing husband, mugging, father son reunion, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, restaurant ...
Place: dallas texas, arizona, tucson arizona
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Sleeping Giant (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A coming-of-age tale that turns on three teenagers who are having a vacation by a lakeside.
Style: cult classic
Audience: teens
Plot: boyhood, summer, water, child, gay, high school, childhood, boy, lgbtq, death, teenage boy, coming of age ...
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The Directive (2019)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In the aftermath of an incurable virus spread, a robot seeking to eradicate humanity deceptively guides a Red Cross survivor to sanctuary with the false hope of his family awaiting in Safe Zone 57.
Style: suspense, allegory, educational, epic, psychotronic ...
Plot: sole survivor, zombie outbreak, robot, journey, expedition, infection, cholera, quarantine, murder, surrealism, betrayal, psychiatrist ...
Time: future, 2020s, year 2019, near future
Place: utah, colorado, china, usa, washington d.c. ...
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Take Me to the River (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A naive California teen plans to remain above the fray at his Nebraskan family reunion, but a strange encounter places him at the center of a long-buried family secret.
Style: ambiguous ending, psychological, suspenseful, sincere, touching ...
Plot: river, child abuse, family secret, injustice, suspicion, children, cousin cousin relationship, summer, farm, child sexual abuse, lgbt, precocious child ...
Place: nebraska
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Lake Consequence (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Irene, a thirty-something housewife with a successfull husband and a young son, has her life thrown in a spin when she becomes attracted to Billy, a member of a landscape crew outside her house. When Irene's husband and son leave for a weekend ...
Style: erotic, sensual, sexual, sexy, retro ...
Audience: adult
Plot: unfaithful wife, adultery, infidelity, erotica, horny wife, sex, obsession, lesbian sex, love affair, midlife crisis, voyeurism, threesome ...
Time: 90s
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My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The Yamadas are a typical middle class Japanese family in urban Tokyo and this film shows us a variety of episodes of their lives. With tales that range from the humourous to the heartbreaking, we see this family cope with life's little ...
Style: anime, manga, aesthetic, light hearted, epic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, marriage, urban setting, international relations, coming of age, parenting, teenager, surrealism, grandmother, middle class, eccentric family, family life ...
Time: year 1999
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
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Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into adulthood and forms his own band - The Bleek Gilliam Quartet. The story of Bleek's ...
Style: serious, psychological, stylized, clever, hood ...
Plot: jazz, music, black, friendship, rivalry, musician's life, hip hop, african american, urban, jealousy, saxophonist, blaxploitation ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1969, 60s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, africa, usa, manhattan new york city
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 4.7
 526
Catching Faith (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: From the outside, Alexa has the perfect life. Her son is the high school football star, daughter a straight A student and her husband is CFO of a booming start-up company. The sudden death ...
Style: christian film, light, feel good, captivating, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot: high school student, american football, christian, faith, football, religion, high school athlete, high school football, christianity, belief in god, high school, mockery ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, america, wisconsin
Is relevant ?
 6.3
 93K
The BFG (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, India, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would ...
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, light, exciting, colorful ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens
Plot: giant, imagination, childhood, magic, dream, fantasy world, friendship, little girl, orphan, wizard, kids and family, queen ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: england, fictional island, london
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Savannah Smiles (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The young daughter of a politician runs away due to lack of attention. She hides in the car of two not too bright crooks who are slowly converted into parent figures as the police web closes down on the supposed kidnappers.
Style: entertaining, touching, epic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: runaway, happy ending, youth, kidnapping, politician, memory, storytelling, police, ransom, child, neglect, family relations ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: utah, salt lake city utah
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 6.7
 479
Alan & Naomi (1992)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Naomi, a young refugee from Nazi-occupied Paris, moves into Alan Silverman’s building in New York, he does his best to avoid her. But despite Naomi's strange behavior and the language barrier, they slowly develop a deep and touching ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, psychological, uplifting ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: world war two, coming of age, youth, children, grief, couples, family relations, friendship, haunted by the past, misfit, against humanity, human nature ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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 5.5
 398
Savages (1972)
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A tribe of primitive "mudpeople" encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following it, they find themselves on a vast, deserted Long Island estate. Entering, they begin to become civilized and assume the stereotypical roles ...
Style: independent film, witty, offbeat, clever, humorous ...
Plot: nudity, satire, culture clash, voice over narration, time travel, human sacrifice, mansion, forest, hostess, face mask, tribe, swing ...
Time: 1930s, stone age
Place: new york
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Happythankyoumoreplease (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Captures a generational moment - young people on the cusp of truly growing up, tiring of their reflexive cynicism, each in their own ways struggling to connect and define what it means to love and be loved. Six New Yorkers juggle love, friendship, ...
Style: melancholic, touching, independent film, emotional, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: relationships, friendship, coming of age, multiple storylines, couples, writers, love, existentialism, loneliness, lifestyle, writer's life, cancer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, los angeles
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 19K
Chocolate (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An autistic woman with powerful martial art skills looks to settle her ailing mother's debts by seeking out the ruthless gangs that owe her family money.
Style: brutal, rough, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, gangster, debt, muay thai, revenge, fight, hitman, chocolate, sword fight, heroine, female martial artist ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
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Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay inside. Walter and Danny, who anticipate a boring day, are shocked when they begin playing Zathura, ...
Style: exciting, intense, semi serious, epic, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot: robot, space travel, brother brother relationship, board game, sibling rivalry, childhood, outer space, child, game, alien, space, youth ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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War of the Worlds (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Russia, Japan, Mexico, South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop of his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, futuristic, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, teens, boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, alien invasion, alien, end of the world, survival, disaster, invasion, space and aliens, destruction, creature, evil alien, catastrophe ...
Time: year 2005, future, jurassic, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, los angeles, boston ...
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We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Married couple Jack and Terry Linden are experiencing a difficult period in their relationship. When Jack decides to step outside the marriage, he becomes involved with Edith, who happens to be the wife of his best friend and colleague, Hank Evans. ...
Style: emotional, stylized, psychological, touching, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, unfaithful wife, extramarital affair, marriage, friendship, adultery, love affair, betrayal, lust, cheating on husband, cheating, forbidden love ...
Time: year 2004
Place: europe, england, portland oregon, oregon
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The Tree of Life (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his ...
Style: philosophical, surreal, artsy, atmospheric, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: philosophy, childhood, grief, coming of age, spirituality, father son relationship, parenthood, existentialism, family relations, domineering father, hopes, religion ...
Time: 1950s, 2010s, year 2011, prehistory, 20th century ...
Place: texas, america, usa, china
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 149K
A Serious Man (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Serious Man is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, philosophical, ironic, cynical ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, professor, rabbi, teacher, suburban life, divorce, marijuana, religion, mysticism, life, neighbor ...
Time: year 2009, 60s, 2000s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: minnesota, usa, poland, bolivia, israel ...
Is relevant ?
 5.9
 582
A Pig's Tale (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Kids' comedy with all the clichés. Six boys (hero, pudgy, dumb, romeo, etc), reluctantly sent to summer camp, are grouped together in a ramshackle hut, and instantly identified as losers and outcasts by the overconfident camp bullies, who ...
Style: independent film, slapstick, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: summer camp, coming of age, youth, bully, prank, rivalry, crush, childhood, summer, water skiing, archery, teenage crush ...
Time: 90s
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 6.8
 9K
Mumford (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In the small town of Mumford, a psychologist of the same name moves in and quickly becomes very popular, despite a questionable past.
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot: therapy, small town, depression, starting over, mental illness, friendship, psychologist, character study, life philosophy, happy ending, loneliness, fall in love ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place: phoenix arizona, china, west virginia
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 6.7
 21K
Martian Child (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A recently-widowed, science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: adoption, orphan, father son relationship, imagination, friendship, parenthood, youth, alien, single father, mars, writers, eccentricity ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
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