Bowling movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant bowling movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, cult classic and retro films and TV shows about / with bowling, dialogue, storytelling, friendship, runaway, female nudity, brutality, family relations, culture clash and mentor plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as bowling: Kingpin (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), Alley Cats Strike (2000), 7-10 Split (2007), Nude Bowling Party (1995), Bowling (2012), How We Roll (2022), The Deer Hunter (1978), Gutterballs (2008), Buffalo '66 (1998).
Best films
New films
| The Holdovers (2023) | 7.9 | |
| Knuckles (2024) | 6.1 | |
| Barrio Boy (2022) | 5.7 | |
| How We Roll (2022) | 5.5 | |
| Mountainhead (2025) | 5.4 |
List of bowling movies
96K
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, feel good, light, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bowling, road trip, buddies, on the road, older woman younger man, dark humor, dumb, culture clash, mentor, sexy woman, fish out of water, success ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1969, year 1979 ...
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, nevada, usa, reno nevada
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink white Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events ...
Style:
black comedy, absurd, funny, neo noir, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
bowling, dialogue, mistaken identity, slacker, hippie, weed, marijuana, great dialogue, laziness, dream, twists and turns, heart attack ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1998, year 1991
Place:
los angeles, iraq, america, arizona, usa ...
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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:
humorous, feel good, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
bowling, youth, friendship, sport team, contests and competitions, rivalry, misfit, unlikely partners, social differences, disorder, high school, occupation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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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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Genre: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
Two teams, one consisting of two models and one of two dancers compete in a bowling contest. Since there are prizes both for the winning team and for the sexiest bowler, the four girls strip totally by the third frame, and bowl the rest of the game ...
Style:
erotic, adult comedy, parody, sensual, raunchy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bowling, butt, nudity, striptease, mature, dancer, tickling, contest, sexploitation, entertainment, camp, entrapment ...
Time:
90s
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564
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story takes place in Carhaix, in the heart of Brittany. A small hospital, with a calm maternity clinic, where few births take place. Mathilde, a mid-wife, Firmine, a pediatric nurse, and Louise, the owner of the Carhaix bowling alley, are all ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
bowling, hospital, friendship, fighting the system, rebellion, human spirit, rebelliousness, workplace, society, strong female presence, maternity ward, championship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, brittany
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Stoic Midwest husband and dad, Tom gets laid off from a car assembly line and makes the extraordinary decision to provide for his family by following his dream of becoming a professional bowler. Tom begins his new career with the loving okay from ...
Style:
feel good, sitcom, semi serious, captivating, inspirational ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
bowling, second chance, changing lives, lifestyle change, direction and purpose, family relations, relationships, satire, ambition, athlete's life, husband wife relationship, career change ...
Place:
midwest
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When Jeff discovers that the bowling alley he manages is being sold, he must do everything he can to save the place he's come to call home.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
bowling, manager, problem solving, depression, lifestyle, satire, coping, sport team, problem, friendship, community, second chance ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
A group of working-class friends decides to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in ...
Style:
depressing, epic, psychological, emotional, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, russian roulette, hunting, anti war, suicide, friendship, small town, wedding, u.s. army, gambling, drunkenness, war crime ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, post world war two, 60s
Place:
vietnam, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, asia, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A brutally sadistic rape leads to a series of bizarre gory murders during a midnight disco bowl-a-rama at a popular bowling alley. One by one, players of two teams meet blood-drenched gruesome deaths at the hand of a black bowling-gloved masked ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
rape, masked killer, killed during sex, gory, serial killer, debauchery, bisexuality, murder of a nude woman, sodomy, gang, bowling, misogynist ...
Time:
80s
Place:
vancouver
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.
Style:
black comedy, psychological, dark comedy, art house, depressing ...
Plot:
alienation, prison, kidnapping, stockholm syndrome, dysfunctional family, bowling, older man teenage girl relationship, relationships, dark humor, haunted by the past, gambling, blackmail ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
new york state, new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
A series of vignettes depict different sexual fantasies.
Style:
erotic, sex comedy, raunchy comedy
Plot:
bowling, hospital, violin, sauna, nymphomaniac, sensuality, nude model, female masturbation, peeping tom, female nudity, sex, erotica ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, central europe, zurich switzerland
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The ambitious police officer Cruchot (Louis de Funès) is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling ...
Style:
funny, humorous, realistic, satirical, light ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
gendarme, father daughter relationship, beach, yacht, seaside, stolen painting, gendarmerie, nun, police, hitchhiker, gas station, investigation ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, french riviera, saint tropez, cote d'azur, mediterranean sea ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Hours after his release from prison, Jesus Quintana pairs up with fellow misfits Petey and Marie for a freewheeling joyride of petty crime and romance.
Style:
funny, humorous, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
bowling, danger, friendship, adaptation, escapades, couples, violence, society, rivalry, youth, love, hopes ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story:
Polish your balls and head to the lanes. Rabbit has escaped the Evil Bong’s World of Weed, and has opened a topless bowling alley. It’s the Grand Opening and the balls are rolling, the boobs are bouncing and the weed is plentiful. When his old ...
Style:
horror comedy, terrifying, slasher, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Plot:
drug, creature, killer, stoner, bowling, marijuana, cannabis, drug abuse, pun, drug addict, back from the dead, murder ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Atom is an amazing zombie killer, has a horny girlfriend...and is the best bowler in the league! But don't tell that to Dario and the Slashers, the evil bowling rivals who will stop at nothing to thwart Atom and his buddies. When all of his ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, suspenseful, psychotronic, scary ...
Plot:
bowling, survival horror, killing spree, walking dead, zombie apocalypse, murder, heroes, survival, killing, dystopian future, rivalry, characters in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, dark, surreal, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, kids
Plot:
serial killer, mental illness, psychopath, blood, hearing voices, murder, psychiatrist, schizophrenic, hallucination, dog, childhood trauma, crush ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Nic (Glenn Morshower), a devoted father, husband, and friend with a passion for fishing and bowling, had the perfect life until his wife left after they became empty nesters, leaving him heartbroken. However, his world takes a hilarious turn when he ...
Style:
romantic comedy, feel good, semi serious, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
christmas, christmas eve, bowling, christmas spirit, winter, satire, holiday, starting over, friendship, midlife crisis, divorce, second chance ...
Place:
texas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two brothers separated by one continent and two decades reunite when one of them becomes sick with cancer.
Style:
light, humorous, contemplative, sincere
Plot:
gay, uncle nephew relationship, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, bowling, child protagonist, competition, family relations, gay slur, bullying, flashback, coming of age ...
Is relevant?
120K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
As an idle, good-natured bachelor, Uncle Buck is the last person you would think of to watch the kids. However, during a family crisis, he is suddenly left in charge of his nephew and nieces. Unaccustomed to suburban life, fun-loving Uncle Buck soon ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, light, touching ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, happy ending, family values, child care, when the parents are away, parents and children, babysitter, fish out of water, respect, mischievous children, siblings relations, babysitting ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, illinois, minnesota, wisconsin, usa ...
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143K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's ...
Style:
touching, retro, humorous, teen, clever ...
Audience:
date night, teens, kids, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
small town, coming of age, time travel, alternate reality, adolescence, parallel world, satire, utopia, siblings relations, fantasy world, small town life, american dream ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 90s, future, year 1998 ...
Place:
america, france, paris france
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75K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Heiress, Joanna Stayton hires carpenter, Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht -- and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get ...
Style:
feel good, light, entertaining, sentimental, funny ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family outing ...
Plot:
rich woman poor man, memory loss, amnesia, love and romance, single father, father son relationship, family life, destiny, carpenter, pretend relationship, personality change, revenge ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
oregon
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size ...
Style:
touching, humorous, depressing, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
loneliness, mental illness, sex doll, shyness, doll, delusion, bittersweet, young man, introvert, small town, forbidden love, character study ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, wisconsin, new jersey
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41K
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
It's 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington is the new kid in school - but he's ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, cult classic, period piece, retro ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
high school, motorcycle, dancing, teenage girl, love, biker, greaser, opposites attract, secret identity, dance, teenage boy, cheerleader ...
Time:
year 1961, year 1982, 60s, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, Frankie develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, light, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
cafe, true love, waitress, restaurant, male female relationship, love, dating, loneliness, happiness, love story, ex convict, food ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, seattle
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological thriller, tense, twist ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, infidelity, stalker, adultery, husband wife relationship, sexual obsession, femme fatale, family in danger, crimes of passion, extramarital affair, fatal attraction, mental illness ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his ...
Style:
feel good, touching, inspirational, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, road not taken, midlife crisis, alternate reality, lost love, life changing experience, lifestyle change, fish out of water, parallel universe, destiny, time travel, family man ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century, year 1987, 2000s ...
Place:
new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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34K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
Style:
neo noir, tense, noir, disturbing, tension ...
Plot:
psychopath, stalking, revenge, lawyer, danger, manic, murder, obsession, stalker, serial killer, family in danger, swamp ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place:
southern usa, savannah georgia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands, UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects in the third installment of the 1980s Superman franchise. ...
Style:
saga, breathtaking, cult classic, psychotronic, epic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
superman, superhero, superhuman powers, superpower, internet, bowling, multiverse, alien, mountain, artificial intelligence, villain, secret identity ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
kansas, arizona, new york, north america, colombia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Following the wedding of young Jenny Piper and Arthur Fitton (Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett), a rowdy reception is held at a local pub where the newlyweds are subjected to much well-meaning but vulgar ribaldry. The couple returns to the Fitton home ...
Style:
romantic comedy, independent film, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
loss of virginity, honeymoon, wedding night, marriage, bowling, family relations, kitchen sink realism, virginity, sex, marital problem, travel agent, privacy ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe
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