20 movies like Waterboys, ordered by similarity : Dan Carter: A Perfect 10(2019), Million Dollar Mermaid(1952), Forever Strong(2008), The Bad News Bears(1976), Junior Bonner(1972), College(1927), Big Fan(2009), Slap Shot(1977), Whip It(2009), North Dallas Forty(1979), It Happens Every Spring(1949), Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl(1982) ...
7.1/10
Comedy
Japan
2001
90 Minutes
Satoshi Tsumabuki Hiroshi Tamaki Akifumi Miura Takatoshi Kaneko Kaori Manabe Aya Hirayama Naoto Takenaka Tetta Sugimoto Akira Emoto
sports synchronized swimming
In a Japanese high school, a class of adolescent geeks joins the new synchronized swimming teacher and takes up the challenge to take part in the competition, in spite of the mockeries of the "real sportsmen".
7.5/10
Documentary
2019
90 Minutes
Dan Carter Richie McCaw Beauden Barrett Steve Hansen Adam Ashley-Cooper Ronan O'Gara
athlete family friend sports commentator sports reporter cheery confident engaging inspiring rousing new zealand rugby professional sports family quest 1990s
All Blacks great Dan Carter has revealed that an "intimate" film about his personal life and his "challenging road" towards the 2015 Rugby. He's fallen in love with an impossible reach, a ... See full summary »
6.6/10
Biography
USA
1952
115 Minutes
Esther Williams Victor Mature Walter Pidgeon David Brian Donna Corcoran Jesse White Maria Tallchief Howard Freeman Charles Watts Wilton Graff Frank Ferguson
dancer swimmer annette kellerman father charming gutsy inspiring spirited london australia united states synchronized swimming love triangle moving sexism prejudice sports underdog transformation growing up
Biopic of Australian swimming champ and entertainer Annette Kellerman. After overcoming polio, Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.
7.2/10
Drama
USA
2008
112 Minutes
Neal McDonough Sean Faris Gary Cole Sean Astin Arielle Kebbel Penn Badgley Julie Warner Nathan West Michael J. Pagan Max Kasch Larry Bagby III
athlete young man juvenile delinquent father moving uplifting touching juvenile detention sports club united states family family dysfunction juvenile crime growing up sports rivalry discovery growing up love transformation
A rugby player is put up in a juvenile detention center. There he plays for the Highland Rugby team and ultimately plays against his father in the National Championships.
7.3/10
Comedy, Kids & Family
USA
1976
102 Minutes
Walter Matthau Tatum O'Neal Vic Morrow Joyce Van Patten Ben Piazza Jackie Earle Haley Alfred W. Lutter Brandon Cruz Shari Summers Joe Brooks Maurice Marks
coach baseball player son father adversary manager cheeky outlandish heartwarming san fernando valley baseball field california baseball alcoholism father/son relationship children vs. adults troubled youth sportsmanship underdog rivalry
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
6.8/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1972
100 Minutes
Steve McQueen Robert Preston Ida Lupino Ben Johnson Joe Don Baker Barbara Leigh Mary Murphy Bill McKinney Sandra Deel Don "Red" Barry Dub Taylor
rodeo rider father brother mother spirited engaging arizona rodeo small town aging family dysfunction competition rodeo aspirations father/son relationship sports rivalry underdog 1970s
Ace Bonner returns to Arizona several years after he abandoned his family, Junior Bonner is a wild young man. Against the typical rodeo championship, family drama erupts.
Comedy
1927
65 Minutes
Buster Keaton Anne Cornwall Flora Bramley Harold Goodwin Grant Withers Buddy Mason Snitz Edwards Carl Harbaugh Sam Crawford Florence Turner Lee Barnes
scholar pretty woman jock dean coach mother madcap hilarious endearing playful college los angeles coliseum restaurant soda shop dorm river college life love triangle sports unrequited love
To impress his sweetheart (Anne Cornwall), a bookworm (Buster Keaton) goes out for baseball and crew.
6.7/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2009
88 Minutes
Patton Oswalt Kevin Corrigan Marcia Jean Kurtz Michael Rapaport Matt Servitto Gino Cafarelli Serafina Fiore Jonathan Hamm Joe Garden Polly Humphries
blue-collar worker mother fan friend football player radio host amusing cheeky emotional staten island, n.y. parking garage hospital gas station strip club radio station sports fandom friendship idolization accident
A hard-core New York Giants fan struggles to deal with the consequences when he is beaten up by his favorite player.
7.3/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1977
123 Minutes
Paul Newman Michael Ontkean Lindsay Crouse Strother Martin Jennifer Warren Jerry Houser Andrew Duncan Jeff Carlson Dave Hanson Yvon Barrette Allan Nichols
coach hockey player wife manager radio personality unrestrained hilarious offbeat small town hockey rink locker room charlestown hockey unemployment violence alcoholism sports underdog transformation 1970s
A failing ice hockey team finds success with outrageously violent hockey goonery.
6.9/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2009
111 Minutes
Elliot Page Marcia Gay Harden Kristen Wiig Drew Barrymore Juliette Lewis Daniel Stern Landon Pigg Alia Shawkat Jimmy Fallon Zoë Bell Eve
teen girl mother father roller skater coach best friend charming uplifting texas small town coming of age sports friendship small-town life rebellion mother/daughter relationship growing up transformation 2000s
In Bodeen, Texas, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with small-town misery after discovering a roller derby league in nearby Austin.
7.0/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1979
120 Minutes
Nick Nolte Mac Davis Charles Durning Dayle Haddon Bo Svenson Steve Forrest G.D. Spradlin Dabney Coleman Savannah Boucher Marshall Colt Guich Koock
athlete football player coach jock dark gritty brash dallas football field football hunting drugs corruption ambition teamwork sports rise fall rivalry 1970s
A satire of American professional football in which a veteran pass-catcher's individuality and refusal to become part of the team family is bitterly resented by his disciplinarian coaches.
Comedy
1949
87 Minutes
Ray Milland Jean Peters Paul Douglas Ed Begley Ted de Corsia Ray Collins Jessie Royce Landis Alan Hale Jr. Bill Murphy William E. Green Edward Keane
baseball pitcher baseball catcher chemist fiancée professor outlandish witty lighthearted st. louis chicago baseball field science gone awry baseball secret identity experiments serendipity sports transformation underdog love
A professor (Ray Milland) becomes a World Series pitcher with his secret formula for wood-repellent screwballs.
7.9/10
Comedy
UK
1982
77 Minutes
Ian MacNaughton Graham Chapman John Cleese Terry Gilliam Eric Idle Terry Jones Michael Palin Neil Innes Carol Cleveland
barber lumberjack michelangelo son pope madcap outlandish witty california hollywood bowl stage fairy tales conversation philosophy singing cross-dressing sports wretched excess underdog 1980s
The Monty Python troupe perform a combination of classic sketches and new material at the Hollywood Bowl.
7.3/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1992
126 Minutes
Tom Hanks Geena Davis Madonna Lori Petty Jon Lovitz David Strathairn Garry Marshall Megan Cavanagh Rosie O'Donnell Renée Coleman Ann Cusack
baseball catcher baseball pitcher baseball player baseball team owner baseball fan coach amusing lighthearted oregon illinois baseball field family home baseball family world war ii women in sports rivalry transformation rise 1940s
Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry.
7.0/10
Comedy
UK
1965
132 Minutes
Stuart Whitman Sarah Miles James Fox Alberto Sordi Robert Morley Gert Froebe Jean-Pierre Cassel Eric Sykes Terry-Thomas Tony Hancock Benny Hill
pilot newspaper owner beautiful woman american englishman villain madcap lighthearted airplane england aviation racing love triangle sportsmanship competition money quest rivalry love sacrifice
Hoping to push Britain to the forefront of aviation, a London publisher organizes an international air race across the English Channel, but must contend with two entrants vying for his daughter, as well as national rivalries and cheating.
7.0/10
Comedy
USA
1995
95 Minutes
Woody Allen Helena Bonham Carter Mira Sorvino Michael Rapaport F. Murray Abraham Claire Bloom Olympia Dukakis David Ogden Stiers Jack Warden Peter Weller Dan Moran
sportswriter wife prostitute porn star boy biological mother outlandish witty new york city parenthood adoption greek mythology genius discovery quest 1990s
When he discovers his adopted son is a genius, a New York sportswriter seeks out the boy's birth mother: a ditzy porn star and prostitute.
7.0/10
Comedy
Belgium|France
2018
122 Minutes
Guillaume Canet Mathieu Amalric Benoît Poelvoorde Jean-Hugues Anglade Virginie Efira Leïla Bekhti Marina Foïs Philippe Katerine Félix Moati Alban Ivanov Jonathan Zaccaï
depressed person unemployed person misfit adult synchronized swimmer teamwork uplifting heartwarming charming swimming pool home coach competition friendship synchronized swimming midlife crisis men financial troubles transformation underdog
A depressed man joins a synchronized swimming team made up of middle aged men.
Comedy
2012
76 Minutes
Jay Duplass Mark Kelly Steve Zissis Jennifer Lafleur Julie Vorus Reid Williams Brendan Robinson Jordan Stidham Elton LeBlanc
brother athlete witty uplifting unrestrained united states brother relationship olympics games sports comedy adventure rise rivalry 2010s
Two long-estranged siblings (Mark Kelly, Steve Zissis) resurrect their self-made, 25-event athletic contest that ended in a tie and permanently fractured their relationship when they were teens.
6.3/10
Comedy
USA
2013
119 Minutes
Will Ferrell Steve Carell Paul Rudd David Koechner Christina Applegate Meagan Good James Marsden Josh Lawson Kristen Wiig Dylan Baker Judah Nelson
anchorman anchor person weatherman sports reporter boss amusing campy cheeky san diego television studio house newsroom news relationships office politics rivalry television personalities adventure pursuit temptation
With the 1970s behind them, San Diego's top-rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York City's first twenty-four-hour news channel by storm.
6.9/10
Comedy
UK
2001
89 Minutes
Ricky Tomlinson Amanda Redman Philip Jackson Bradley Walsh Phill Jupitus Ulrich Thomsen Robert Putt Martin Bashir Chris McQuarry Geoff Bell Dean Lennox Kelly
manager star player alcoholic assistant journalist pelé hilarious offbeat england brazil soccer field soccer world cup competition new job media sports quest underdog 2000s
The manager of England's national football unexpectedly succumbs to a heart attack, and suddenly the search is on for a replacement. Most people who seem qualified for the position have the... See full summary »
6.9/10
Comedy, Drama
UK
2005
92 Minutes
Peter Mullan Brenda Blethyn Sean McGinley Jamie Sives Billy Boyd Ron Cook Jodhi May Benedict Wong Anne Marie Timoney Shaun Dingwall Tony Roper
worker wife friend cynic son emotional inspiring uplifting beach glasgow house ambition retirement redemption determination friendship swimming discovery rise transformation
Frank determines to salvage his self-esteem and tackle his demons by attempting the ultimate test of endurance - swimming the English Channel.
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