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Movies Like First Broadcast

If you liked First Broadcast (2001), a movie directed by Dan Magee, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Gleaming the Cube

    Gleaming the Cube (1989)

    ★ 6/10

    An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a screeching halt when someone close to him dies. The cops rule the death a suicide, but the bereaved skater…

  2. 2Bones Brigade: An Autobiography

    Bones Brigade: An Autobiography (2012)

    ★ 7.9/10

    When six teenage boys came together as a skateboarding team in the 1980s, they reinvented not only their chosen sport but themselves too – as they evolved from insecure outsiders to the most influential athletes in the…

  3. 3Amateur

    Amateur (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10

    14-year-old basketball phenom Terron Forte has to navigate the under-the-table world of amateur athletics when he is recruited to an elite NCAA prep school.

  4. 4Fedora

    Fedora (1978)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement, only to discover the horrifying truth behind her success.

  5. 5Thrashin'

    Thrashin' (1986)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Corey and his band of skater buddies sometimes make mischief, but they're more interested in girls and having fun on their boards than in getting into any real trouble. Notorious enemy crew the Daggers, led by Tommy…

  6. 6Lords of Dogtown

    Lords of Dogtown (2005)

    ★ 7.1/10

    The radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever. Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva and Jay Adams are the Z-Boys, a…

  7. 7Blue Chips

    Blue Chips (1994)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the…

  8. 8Stomp the Yard

    Stomp the Yard (2007)

    ★ 7.2/10

    After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his…

  9. 9Chang Can Dunk

    Chang Can Dunk (2023)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Chang, a 16-year-old, Asian American, bets the high school basketball star that he can dunk by Homecoming. The bet leads 5' 8" Chang on a quest to learn to dunk—not only to impress his crush, Kristy, but to gain the…

  10. 10Love Happy

    Love Happy (1949)

    ★ 5.8/10

    The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds.

  11. 11mid90s

    mid90s (2018)

    ★ 7.5/10

    In 1990s Los Angeles, a 13-year-old spends his summer navigating between a troubled home life and a crew of new friends he meets at a skate shop.

  12. 12Splendor

    Splendor (1999)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Veronica is a white-bread beauty searching for a good man in Los Angeles. While slam dancing at a Halloween rave, she meets Abel, a sensitive poet. Then she meets Zed, a supersexy tattooed drummer with incredible…

  13. 13Battle of the Year

    Battle of the Year (2013)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.

  14. 14Newness

    Newness (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10

    In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.

  15. 15The Midnight Patrol

    The Midnight Patrol (1933)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Novice policemen Stan and Ollie bungle a burglary investigation.

  16. 16Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

    Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)

    ★ 5.9/10

    The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.

  17. 17Drumline

    Drumline (2002)

    ★ 7/10

    A talented street drummer from Harlem enrolls in a Southern university, expecting to lead its marching band's drumline to victory. He initially flounders in his new world, before realizing that it takes more than…

  18. 18Step Up All In

    Step Up All In (2014)

    ★ 6.8/10

    All-stars from previous installments convene in glittering Las Vegas, battling for a victory that could define their dreams and their careers.

  19. 1929th Street

    29th Street (1991)

    ★ 6.9/10

    After winning $6.2 million in the 1976 New York State Lottery, he is arrested for throwing rocks at a church. He then tells his story at the police station.

  20. 20Players

    Players (2024)

    ★ 6/10

    New York sportswriter Mack has spent years devising successful hook-up "plays" with her friends, but when she unexpectedly falls for one of her targets, she must learn what it takes to go from simply scoring to playing…

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