Movies like Black Cheerleader Search 23 (1998)
The best movies like Black Cheerleader Search 23 (1998) are Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special (2017), ...All the Marbles (1981) and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970). If Black Cheerleader Search 23 hooked you, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedThe Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (2021)7.4/10 from 1,164 votes
- NewestKatala: Game Night (2024)Released 2024
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special (2017)
After Santa tells Michael Bolton that he needs 75,000 new babies by Christmas to meet toy supply, he hosts a sexy telethon to get the world to start making love.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like this...All the Marbles (1981)
A two-bit promoter tries to take a women's wrestling team to the top.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
An all-girl rock band moves to Hollywood in the hope of achieving success, only to fall into a whirlpool of wickedness and decadence.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJeff Dunham: Arguing with Myself (2006)
A recorded live performance of ventriloquist Jeff Dunham portrays a comedian whose revival of an old-fashioned art has made ventriloquism more relevant to modern societal concerns. Starring his six main characters, from Bubba Jay, a Nascar-obsessed hick, to Peanut, a flamboyant gay monkey, Dunham’s puppets have dirty but inoffensive senses of humor that mock the American Dream.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPretty Persuasion (2005)
A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisMandingo (1975)
Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he returns from the honeymoon. He also buys his father a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and train as a prize-fighter.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMatangi / Maya / M.I.A. (2018)
Drawn from a never before seen cache of personal footage spanning decades, this is an intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and musician who continues to shatter conventions.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPariah (2011)
A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Madea Christmas (2013)
Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on rural town when she's coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (2021)
Escaping from poverty to become a witcher, Vesemir slays monsters for coin and glory, but when a new menace rises, he must face the demons of his past.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHeavy Traffic (1973)
A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an Italian father and a ditzy nutcase of a Jewish mother, he's ridiculed and looked down upon by his friends, hypocrites who run with violent gangs and the Italian Mafia, and a shallow Black girl who makes her living downtown with the pimps and pushers. The cartoonist gets a chance to pitch a film idea to a movie mogul, but the story proves too outrageous: a far-future Earth, depleted by war and pollution, where a mutant antihero challenges and kills God.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParadise Alley (1978)
Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisFaster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
A trio of thrill-seeking go-go dancers kidnap a young girl and attempt to seduce an old rancher and his two sons out of their small fortune, but their scheme doesn't play out as intended.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisZola (2021)
A waitress agrees to accompany an exotic dancer, her put-upon boyfriend, and her mysterious and domineering roommate on a road trip to Florida to seek their fortune at a high-end strip club.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Sweet East (2023)
A picaresque journey through contemporary America, undertaken by a young woman granted access to the strange sects and cults that proliferate in this country by a series of gatekeepers eager to win her over.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSouth Park (Not Suitable for Children) (2023)
After it's discovered that a teacher at South Park Elementary has an OnlyFans page, Randy is compelled to take a closer look at the seedy underbelly of the world of online influencers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRoad House (1989)
The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton has been hired to clean it up. He might not look like much, but the Ph.D.-educated bouncer proves he's more than capable – busting the heads of troublemakers and turning the roadhouse into a jumping hot spot. But Dalton's romance with the gorgeous Dr. Clay puts him on the bad side of cutthroat local big shot Brad Wesley.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisO Lucky Man! (1973)
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHeathers (1989)
A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Dirt (2019)
The story of Mötley Crüe and their rise from the Sunset Strip club scene of the early 1980s to superstardom.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCan't Buy Me Love (1987)
Nerdy high schooler Ronald Miller rescues cheerleader Cindy Mancini from parental punishment after she accidentally destroys her mother's designer clothes. Ronald agrees to pay for the $1,000 outfit on one condition: that she will act as though they're a couple for an entire month. As the days pass, however, Cindy grows fond of Ronald, making him popular. But when Ronald's former best friend gets left behind, he realizes that social success isn't everything.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKatala: Game Night (2024)
Four popular members of a cheerleading team decide to go to a lake house for a fun weekend. For fun, the girls summon the spirit of a serial killer who lived centuries ago and spread terror. However, the session suddenly becomes terrifying and they are forced to face the consequences of their mistake.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Spinning Man (2018)
Evan Birch is a family man and esteemed professor at a distinguished university. When a female student goes missing, police Detective Malloy has reason to be suspicious when crucial evidence makes Evan the prime suspect in her disappearance.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
SnoozefestMovies like thisTeenage Vampire (2020)
Chase and Pam join the high school cheerleading squad in order to be cool and find out the team is infested with Vampires.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Varsity Blues (1999)
In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion, 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night. When star quarterback Lance Harbor suffers an injury, the Coyotes are forced to regroup under the questionable leadership of John Moxon, a second-string quarterback with a slightly irreverent approach to the game.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBring It On: Worldwide #Cheersmack (2017)
When Destiny, captain of three-time national champions "The Rebels," is challenged to a global cheer showdown by an edgy new team called "The Truth," the Cheer Goddess organizes a virtual battle for squads from all around the world. It seems like the whole world wants to take down Destiny and her team, and they just might succeed, unless Destiny can rise to the challenge, set her ego aside and figure out who her real friends are.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDeadly Cheers (2022)
Julie has been forced to leave her old school and cheer squad behind when her mom gets a job as assistant principal at Wilson High School - a well-funded magnet school for the athletically gifted. When Julie’s tumbling nails her a top position on the champion Wilson Wolf Pack cheer squad, excitement turns to trepidation as her new cheer friends start turning on her. Feeling lost and alone she has to get to the bottom of Wilson’s dirty secrets if she’s going to survive.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Bring It On: In It to Win It (2007)
Fourth 'Bring It On' movie is set at a cheerleader camp in Florida with a 'West Side Story' musical feel has the female captain of the West Side Sharks meeting and romancing a male member of the East Coast Jets amid their different team rivalries.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDirty Deeds (2005)
According to a high school's lore, the "Dirty Deeds" are a daunting list of dares almost no student has ever completed. To win the student body's respect and get noticed by his crush, senior Zach is determined to finish the list in the allotted 24-hour time period. As the school's bullying jocks try to thwart him at every turn, Zach embarks on a wild journey, highlighted by beer swilling, grand theft auto and the snagging of an ex-homecoming queen's bra.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
SnoozefestMovies like thisCan't Hardly Wait (1998)
It's graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means - time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night to remember, as the nerds become studs, the jocks are humiliated, and freshman crushes blossom into grown-up romance.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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What are the best movies like Black Cheerleader Search 23?
The closest matches to Black Cheerleader Search 23 are Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special (2017), ...All the Marbles (1981) and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Black Cheerleader Search 23?
Start with Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special (2017), the closest match to Black Cheerleader Search 23.
What is the highest-rated movie like Black Cheerleader Search 23?
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (2021), rated 7.4/10 by 1,164 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Black Cheerleader Search 23?
Katala: Game Night (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Black Cheerleader Search 23?
Yes: Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special (2017), ...All the Marbles (1981) and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970).
How are movies similar to Black Cheerleader Search 23 chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Black Cheerleader Search 23, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.