Movies Like Pete Rose: Playing to Win
If you liked Pete Rose: Playing to Win (2003), a movie directed by Alan Swyer, 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.
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Home Run (2013)
★ 6.2/10A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team
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Rookie of the Year (1993)
★ 6.2/10When the cast comes off his once broken arm, a 12-year-old boy can throw a 100-mile-an-hour fastball, and the Chicago Cubs want him as their new pitcher.
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Little Big League (1994)
★ 6/10When the owner of the Minnesota Twins passes away, he bequeaths the team to his preteen grandson. The newly minted head honcho quickly appoints himself manager, causing unrest in an organization that struggles to take…
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Blue Chips (1994)
★ 6.1/10Pete 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…
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Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)
★ 5.9/10The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.
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Fast Girls (2012)
★ 6/10A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
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The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014)
★ 7.4/10Hollywood veteran Bing Russell creates the only independent baseball team in the country—alarming the baseball establishment and sparking the meteoric rise of the 1970s Portland Mavericks.
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Mr. Baseball (1992)
★ 5.8/10Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a…
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The Hill (2023)
★ 7.7/10The story of Rickey Hill, who overcomes his physical disability and repairs his relationship with his father in a quest to become a major league baseball (MLB) player.
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Amateur (2018)
★ 6.4/1014-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.
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The Rookie (2002)
★ 6.8/10Jim 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…
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Bad News Bears (2005)
★ 5.8/10Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker…
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Hands of Stone (2016)
★ 6.6/10The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
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Hardball (2001)
★ 6.5/10An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
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Jawbone (2017)
★ 6.1/10A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner…
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Porno (2019)
★ 6/10When a group of naive teens working at a movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education…written in blood.
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Flicka (2006)
★ 6.9/10Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. The headstrong 16 year old then sets…
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For Love of the Game (1999)
★ 6.4/10A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years.
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Eight Men Out (1988)
★ 6.8/10Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with…
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The Benchwarmers (2006)
★ 5.9/10A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league squads.