Movies Like Game Day
If you liked Game Day (2019), a comedy and drama movie directed by John Susman, 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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Above the Rim (1994)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaStory of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.
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Blue Chips (1994)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaPete 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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uwantme2killhim? (2013)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaBased on the Vanity Fair article of the same title, a story about a young boy drawn into a web of lies through an online chatroom.
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Amateur (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also drama14-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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Chang Can Dunk (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and dramaChang, 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…
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SubUrbia (1997)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaA group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
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Family Weekend (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaA 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
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The Air Up There (1994)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyJimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home…
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Thunderstruck (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyAfter NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.
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White Men Can't Jump (1992)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and dramaTwo street basketball hustlers try to con each other, then team up for a bigger score.
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Fast Girls (2012)
★ 6/10Also dramaA street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
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Don't Think Twice (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and dramaAn improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.
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Landline (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaA teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
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CQ (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaA young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi…
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Hardball (2001)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaAn 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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The Basketball Diaries (1995)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaA high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
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White Men Can't Jump (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and dramaSeemingly opposite street hoopers, Jeremy, an injury prone former star, and Kamal, a has-been prodigy, team up to take one final shot at living out their dreams.
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Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyWhen LeBron and his young son Dom are trapped in a digital space by a rogue A.I., LeBron must get them home safe by leading Bugs, Lola Bunny and the whole gang of notoriously undisciplined Looney Tunes to victory over…
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GOAT (2026)
★ 8/10Also comedyA small goat with big dreams gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play roarball, a high-intensity, co-ed, full-contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world.
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Playing God (2021)
★ 6/10Also comedy and dramaA brother and sister con-artist duo find themselves scamming a grieving billionaire by convincing him they can introduce him to God, face-to-face.