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Movies Like PWUSA Star Wars

If you liked PWUSA Star Wars (1985), a movie directed by Verne Gagne, 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. 1The Pride of the Yankees

    The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

    ★ 7.3/10

    The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

  2. 2People Like Us

    People Like Us (2012)

    ★ 6.8/10

    After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never…

  3. 3For Love of the Game

    For Love of the Game (1999)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A 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.

  4. 4Marty

    Marty (1955)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother, is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward, he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to…

  5. 5Little Manhattan

    Little Manhattan (2005)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Ten-year-old Gabe Burton is just an average kid growing up in Manhattan until Rosemary Telesco walks into his karate class. But before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she reveals that she won't be going to public…

  6. 6The Bad News Bears

    The Bad News Bears (1976)

    ★ 6.9/10

    An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.

  7. 7Staying Alive

    Staying Alive (1983)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Five years later, Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever still burns. Now he's struts toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.

  8. 8The Station Agent

    The Station Agent (2003)

    ★ 7.3/10

    When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.

  9. 9It Happened to Jane

    It Happened to Jane (1959)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the "meanest…

  10. 10A Night at the Roxbury

    A Night at the Roxbury (1998)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Despite being well into adulthood, brothers Doug and Steve Butabi still live at home and work in the flower shop owned by their dad. They exist only to hit on women at discos, though they're routinely unsuccessful…

  11. 11Love with the Proper Stranger

    Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, engages in a short-lived affair with a handsome jazz musician named Rocky Papasano. When Angie becomes pregnant, she…

  12. 12Milk Money

    Milk Money (1994)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Three young boys pool their money and pay V, a kindhearted prostitute, to strip for them. Afterward, she drives them home to the suburbs -- but then her car breaks down. It's just as well, though, because a mobster…

  13. 13The Philadelphia Story

    The Philadelphia Story (1940)

    ★ 7.5/10

    When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

  14. 14Head Full of Honey

    Head Full of Honey (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A young girl tries to help her grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkable adventure with him.

  15. 15The Odd Life of Timothy Green

    The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)

    ★ 7/10

    A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.

  16. 16Paris Is Burning

    Paris Is Burning (1991)

    ★ 8/10

    Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball…

  17. 17The Little Rascals

    The Little Rascals (1994)

    ★ 6.8/10

    When nine-year-old Alfalfa falls for Darla, his "He-Man-Woman-Hating" friends attempt to sabotage their relationship.

  18. 18The Magic of Ordinary Days

    The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.

  19. 19A League of Their Own

    A League of Their Own (1992)

    ★ 7.2/10

    As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters…

  20. 20An Autumn Romance

    An Autumn Romance (2021)

    ★ 7/10

    When librarian Taylor Harris suddenly loses her job, she decides to visit her brother in a small town in Montana. There, she gets involved in the fight to help save her brother's hotel from tycoon Joel Sheenan, who…

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