| Soul of the Game (1996) | 7.4 | |
| Boston Legal (2004) | 8.5 | |
| RED (2010) | 7.0 | |
| Laverne & Shirley (1976) | 7.0 | |
| The Natural (1984) | 7.4 |
Major league movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant major league movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, feel good, entertaining, serious and clever films and TV shows about / with major league, catastrophe, destiny, runaway, storytelling, mentor, culture clash, dialogue, life philosophy and brutality plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Sport genres shot in USA, Canada, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as major league: Major League (1989), The Rookie (2002), The Bronx Is Burning (2007), Pitcher and the Pin-Up (2003), The Sandlot: Heading Home (2007), Clubhouse (2004), One Outs (2008), 42 (2013), Winter Ball (2022), The Cardinal (1963).
Best films
List of major league movies
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, hot dog, major league, rivalry, professional sports, baseball coach, ambition, rise to the top, follow your dream, contests and competitions, against the odds ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
miami, ohio, florida, usa, new york ...
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At the behest of Roger Dorn -- the Minnesota Twins' silver-tongued new owner -- washed-up minor league hurler Gus Cantrell steps up to the plate to take over as skipper of the club's hapless farm team. But little does he know that Dorn has ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
baseball, baseball coach, underdog, major league, baseball player, sport competition, racing, competition, contest, tournament, sport team, rivalry ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
minnesota, south carolina, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas, Jim's team makes a deal with him: if ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, inspirational, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, girls' night, preschool ...
Plot:
baseball, underdog, baseball coach, father son relationship, high school, hopes, major league, baseball player, following a dream, rags to riches, teacher, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, year 2002, 80s, 90s
Place:
texas, midwest, austin texas, usa, orlando florida ...
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Bronx Is Burning is a television drama that debuted on ESPN on July 9, 2007, after the 2007 MLB Home Run Derby. It is an eight-episode mini-series adapted from Jonathan Mahler's best-selling book, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx Is Burning. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, clever, humorous ...
Plot:
major league, self involved, rising to stardom, athlete's life, ambition, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, coach, manager, championship, sport team, campaign ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city
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Genre: Action, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Growing up in Las Vegas, Danny and Melissa meet at age eight and are destined to become life long friends. During their teen years they cling to each other for love and security but as they grow older their lives take different paths. Danny fills ...
Style:
realistic, serious, humorous, touching, romantic drama ...
Plot:
baseball, hopes, youth, athlete's life, follow your dream, looking for love, lifestyle, coming of age, ambition, rivalry, love and romance, major league ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas
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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, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, rivalry, underdog, lifestyle, buddies ...
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
For the first time, Pete Young takes a risk - perhaps the only risk of his young life - when he applies for and lands his dream job as a batboy for the New York Empires. The problem is that his single mother, Lynne has no idea what he's up to. ...
Style:
feel good, serious, realistic, captivating
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
baseball, young heroes, family relations, wish come true, teenage life, against the odds, athlete's life, youth, rebelliousness, lifestyle, parents and children, sport team ...
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Hiromichi Kojima, the star batter of the Lycaons, heads to the southern Japanese island of Okinawa to train and find a new pitcher for the team. There, he meets Toa Tokuchi, a 134-kmph pitcher and the undisputed king of a gambling form of baseball ...
Style:
anime, psychological, light, inspirational, entertaining ...
Plot:
baseball, wager, major league, life philosophy, dispute, contests and competitions, obsession, fanatic, culture clash, workaholic, sports fan, sport team ...
Place:
japan, okinawa japan
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108K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The powerful story of Jackie Robinson, the legendary baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he joined the roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The film follows the innovative Dodgers’ general manager Branch Rickey, the ...
Style:
sentimental, period piece, touching, factual, intense ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
racism, baseball, athlete and trainer, african american, rise to the top, racial segregation, civil rights, athlete's life, against the odds, biopic, black history, justice ...
Time:
1940s, year 1946, 2010s, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place:
africa, new york, usa, pasadena california, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Sport
Country: Dominican Republic
Story:
A minor league pitcher is about to get called up to the big leagues - or so he thinks. Instead, he's sent to the Dominican Republic to play Winter Ball where he finds his baseball heart and so much more.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, feel good, atmospheric ...
Plot:
baseball, sport team, sporting event, professional sports, major league, sports fan, sports man, athlete and trainer, professional athlete, athlete's life, sport competition, fight ...
Place:
dominican republic
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Naziism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
Style:
epic, religious drama, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
catholic priest, priest, racism, vatican, widow, church, catholic, nazi, clergy, pope, cardinal the priest, woman in labor ...
Time:
year 1963
Place:
italy, rome italy, vienna, boston, georgia
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Laverne & Shirley is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from January 27, 1976 to May 10, 1983. It starred Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as Shirley Feeney, single roommates who worked as bottlecappers in a ...
Style:
sitcom, feel good, not serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, date night, teens
Plot:
female protagonist, friendship, nothing goes right, roommate, factory worker, best friend, family relations, lifestyle, starting over, looking for love, boss and employee, workplace ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
milwaukee wisconsin, california, usa, los angeles, wisconsin
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game.
Style:
independent film, freeze frame
Plot:
gambling, american football, billiards, hustler, tournament, gambling addiction, casino, major league, card playing, on the road, sexism, hitman ...
Time:
year 1980, 80s
Place:
baltimore, new orleans
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994.
Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a ...
Style:
realistic, stylized, serious, clever, thrilling ...
Plot:
legal, lawyer, lawsuit, law firm, courtroom drama, hypocrisy, workplace situations, office, partner, womanizer, dedicated lawyer, workplace ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, las vegas, usa
Is relevant?
147K
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage ...
Style:
funny, humorous, road movie, entertaining, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, date night
Plot:
twins, road trip, buddy, contract killer, killer, male virgin, fish out of water, partner, family relations, on the road, brothers, buddies ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
usa, los angeles, arizona, austin texas, houston texas ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to ...
Style:
art house, surreal, melancholic, atmospheric, dark comedy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
desert, magic realism, car salesman, nervous breakdown, self discovery, surrealism, family relations, fall in love, love and romance, eccentric family, on the road, sex scene ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
arizona, alaska, usa, new york, papua new guinea
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young boy who tries to set his dad up on a date after the death of his mother. He calls into a radio station to talk about his dad’s loneliness which soon leads the dad into meeting a Journalist Annie who flies to Seattle to write a story about ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, touching, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, family outing, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
happy ending, radio, loneliness, single parent, couples, love and romance, love story, looking for love, life, destiny, starting over, love ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1993, year 1992, year 1991
Place:
seattle, manhattan new york city, new york, washington state, baltimore ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Robert Altman's story is a riff on race, class, and power cross-cuts between the two kidnappings and the background of corrupt politics and virtuoso jazz music. It all takes place in Kansas City in 1934.
Style:
atmospheric, talky, neo noir, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
jazz, women, music, loneliness, addiction, gangster, politics, jazz musician, political corruption, violence, corruption, kidnapped wife ...
Time:
1930s, year 1996, 20th century, year 1934
Place:
missouri, kansas city, usa, kansas
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Disney's Jungle Cubs is an animated series produced by Disney for ABC in 1996. It was based on their 1967 feature film The Jungle Book, but set in the youth of the animal characters. The show was a hit, running for two seasons in syndication ...
Style:
lighthearted, tropical, colorful, slapstick, educational
Audience:
kids
Plot:
jungle book, friendship, childhood, teamwork, nature, unhappiness, exploration, wildlife, coming of age, animal protagonist, major league, monkey ...
Time:
90s
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the three teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal point of their existence. They'll do anything for tickets -- compete in a strip club's ...
Style:
period piece, road movie, funny, teen, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
rock and roll, virginity, heavy metal, coming of age, youth, friendship, high school, road trip, domineering mother, telephone call, runaway, music ...
Time:
70s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century, year 1978 ...
Place:
michigan, detroit, ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. With a few veterans of the war, most of the recruits are young men who have little or ...
Style:
harsh, serious, exciting, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
texas ranger, american civil war, civil war, tough heroes, rivalry, rescue, danger, love triangle, vengeance, violence, betrayal, murder ...
Time:
19th century, year 2001, 1870s
Place:
texas, mexico, austin texas, latin america, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When Jay and Silent Bob learn that their comic-book alter egos, Bluntman and Chronic, have been sold to Hollywood as part of a big-screen movie that leaves them out of any royalties, the pair travels to Tinseltown to sabotage the production.
Style:
humorous, funny, talky, absurd, not serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
stoner, jay and silent bob, profanity, weed, dumb, hitchhiker, road trip, filmmaking, marijuana, hollywood, internet, drug ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey, california, utah
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After breaking up with his lover and boss, a smooth-talking man takes his teenaged nephew out on the town in search of sex.
Style:
cynical, clever, erotic, sex comedy, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
virginity, womanizer, nightlife, sexuality, relationships, seduction, coming of age, mentor, character study, battle of the sexes, dating, passion ...
Time:
year 2002, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
new york, ohio, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
Style:
sexy, witty, stylized, visually stunning, period piece ...
Audience:
kids, date night, girls' night
Plot:
broadway, femme fatale, desire for fame, lovers, jail, prison, musician, lawyer, jazz, satire, execution, brutality ...
Time:
1920s, 1900s, 2000s, 20th century, year 2002 ...
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, contemplative, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
investigation, forensics, police detective, murder, danger, policewoman, law enforcement, workplace situations, medical examiner, police, workplace, crime scene ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
miami, usa, south america, florida
Is relevant?
164K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern ...
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, inspirational, dramatic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
jazz, addiction, musician, musician's life, music, african american, blindness, biopic, blind character, heroin, blind boy, disability ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 1930s, 50s, 2000s ...
Place:
georgia, new york, california, indianapolis indiana, usa ...
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43K
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, USA, Japan, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set in the futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy (Atom) is a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he had lost. Unable to fulfill his creator's expectations, Astro embarks on a journey in search ...
Style:
computer animated, anime, exciting, futuristic, 3d animation ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
androids and robots, robot, androids, transformation, destiny, children, evil force, family in danger, goodhearted, giant, superhero, good versus evil ...
Time:
future, year 2009
Place:
tokyo, japan
Is relevant?
337K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent, Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
Style:
exciting, action comedy, entertaining, action thriller, satanic ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, manly
Plot:
assassin, cia, spy, hitman, secret service, chase, female spy, on the run, ex cia agent, mercenary, mission, gunfight ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans, kansas, langley virginia, new york ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once ...
Style:
fairy tale, epic fantasy, exciting, fantasy adventure, enigmatic ...
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
giant, magic, imaginary kingdom, heroic mission, save the princess, youth, mythology, good versus evil, throne, princess, sword and sorcery, heroes ...
Time:
middle ages, year 2013, 2010s, 18th century
Place:
seattle, london, england, tower bridge london
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain is a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side, and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one ...
Style:
claymation, humorous, colorful, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
stop motion, pirate, pirate ship, twists and turns, mentor, rivalry, queen victoria, greed, treasure hunt, rescue, creativity, friendship ...
Time:
19th century, 2010s, edwardian era, 1800s, year 2012 ...
Place:
caribbean, fictional island, england, madagascar, london
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