Movies like The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977)
The best movies like The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) are Rookie of the Year (1993), The Sandlot 2 (2005) and Little Big League (1994). If The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training hooked you with its comedy and family, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Sandlot (1993)7.6/10 from 1,404 votes
- NewestHome Team (2022)Released 2022
- Same seriesThe Bad News Bears (1976)The Bad News Bears
Rookie of the Year (1993)
When 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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Sandlot 2 (2005)
A decade has passed in the small town where the original Sandlot gang banded together during the summer of ’62 to play baseball and battle the Beast. Now, back at the dugout, nine new kids descend on the diamond only to discover that a descendant of the Beast lives in Mr. Mertle’s backyard – a monster of mythical proportions known as 'The Great Fear'.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLittle Big League (1994)
When 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 orders from a 12-year-old.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLittle Giants (1994)
When Danny O'Shea's daughter is cut from the Peewee football team just for being a girl, he decides to form his own team, composed of other ragtag players who were also cut. Can his team really learn enough to beat the elite team, coached by his brother, a former pro player?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFather and Scout (1994)
A father gets a crash course in the outdoors in this made for television comedy for kids. Comedian Bob Saget stars as an urban living dad who decides to take his son Michael (Brian Bonsall) -- working his way to Eagle Scout -- on a camping trip. Poor dad is well-meaning, but fumbles his way through a series of mishaps.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
The World's Greatest Athlete (1973)
Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he can reverse the school's athletic fortunes. An African vacation with his assistant (Tim Conway) answers Archer's prayers when he spots the athletically gifted Nanu (Jan-Michael Vincent). Sam counts on Nanu's remarkable abilities to put the team back on the winning track. This upbeat farce boasts an impressive cast of comedians.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Ernest Goes to School (1994)
Jim Varney's recurring dim-bulb character Ernest P. Worrell returns in this film as a school janitor seeking to obtain a high school diploma.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisHome Team (2022)
Two years after a Super Bowl win when NFL head coach Sean Payton is suspended, he goes back to his hometown and finds himself reconnecting with his 12-year-old son by coaching his Pop Warner football team.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMajor League II (1994)
After losing in the ALCS the year before, the Cleveland Indians are determined to make it into the World Series this time! However, they first have to contend with Rachel Phelps again when she buys back the team.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisYou're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown! (1994)
The Peanuts Gang competes in a punt, pass and kick contest. The winner gets a new bicycle and a trip to the Super Bowl. Meanwhile, Snoopy coaches the Birds football team (made up of a bunch of Woodstock-like birds) to the AFL (Animal Football League) Super Bowl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Making the Grade (1984)
Lazy preppie Palmer Woodrow hires street-smart Eddie Keaton to go to school for him while he lives it up in Europe. Eddie falls in love with preppie gal Tracey, upsetting Biff, the Hoover Academy bully. When his bookie from the old neighborhood, Dice, comes to collect on Eddie's gambling debts and Palmer returns early from Europe, the scheme slowly starts to unravel. Soon, Eddie can't even tell whose side he's really on.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Scout (1994)
When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout Al Percolo gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potential gold mine in the arm of young phenom Steve Nebraska. Soon, the New York Yankees put a $55 million contract on the table—provided a psychiatrist can affirm Nebraska's mental stability.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisFull-Court Miracle (2003)
Inspired by the true story of University of Virginia basketball star Lamont Carr, the film centers on a group of young Jewish basketball players who search for a coach to help them out of a slump. The main character Alex Schlotsky is inspired by the true story of Alex Barbag and Chad Korpeck.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
SnoozefestMovies like thisSki Patrol (1990)
Pops isn't worried about the renewal of the lease for his ski lodge - the safety record is unblemished in spite of the crew of misfits who make up his ski patrol. But a scheming land developer has other plans and the ski patrol is thrust into a skiing showdown in order to save Pops' mountain.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Big Green (1995)
In a depressed Texas town, British foreign exchange teacher Anna attempts to inject some life into her hopeless kids by introducing them to soccer. They're terrible at first, but Anna and her football-hero assistant whip them into shape. As they work overtime, the pair help kids build their self-esteem and also get involved in solving family squabbles.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisWilma (1977)
The story of American track sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who overcame physical handicaps to win three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Gus (1976)
The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so happy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Air Up There (1994)
Jimmy 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 movie. But Saleh is the chief's son and has responsibilities at home, since the tribe's land is threatened by a mining company with its own hotshot basketball team.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmazing Grace and Chuck (1987)
Average American boy Chuck Murdock goes on a school outing to a nuclear weapons facility, where he learns about the destructive power that sits at the fingertips of the military. Knowing that the world could end with the push of a button, he protests against nuclear war by walking out on his Little League team during a game. Chuck's stunt ends up in the local paper, and as the story snowballs, basketball star "Amazing Grace" Smith decides to boycott sports, too.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch (2002)
Josh is off to his first year of college and Buddy has stayed behind with Josh’s little sister Andrea and the rest of the family. Andrea, attempting to fit in with her Jr. High classmates, decides to join the baseball team and along the way discovers that Buddy is a talented baseball player.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Bad News Bears (1976)
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
Why it matches: Same series: The Bad News Bears · both family & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLadybugs (1992)
To climb the corporate ladder to success, a businessman agrees to coach his company's all-girl soccer team with the help of his secret weapon: his fiancee's son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Mighty Ducks (1992)
After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hockey team for his community service. Gordon has experience on the ice, but isn't eager to return to hockey, a point hit home by his tense dealings with his own former coach, Jack Reilly. The reluctant Gordon eventually grows to appreciate his team, which includes promising young Charlie Conway, and leads them to take on Reilly's tough players.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisD3: The Mighty Ducks (1996)
The Ducks are offered scholarships at Eden Hall Academy but struggle with their new coach's methods and come under pressure from the board to retain their scholarships before their big game against the Varsity team.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAir Bud (1997)
A lonely boy befriends a stray dog who has a natural talent for basketball and together they experience the highs and lows of life as their friendship remains solid through a series of escapades.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisAir Bud: Golden Receiver (1998)
Josh and Buddy move from basketball to football in this first of several sequels to the original Air Bud.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Sandlot (1993)
During a summer of friendship and adventure, one boy becomes a part of the gang, nine boys become a team and their leader becomes a legend by confronting the terrifying mystery beyond the right field wall.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisD2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)
After Gordon Bombay's hockey comeback is cut short he is named coach of Team USA Hockey for the Junior Goodwill Games. Bombay reunites the Mighty Ducks and introduces a few new players, however, he finds himself distracted by his newfound fame and must regather if the Ducks are to defeat tournament favourites Iceland.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Sandlot: Heading Home (2007)
A successful professional baseball player gets his ego in check when he travels back in time to his boyhood sandlot ball-playing days.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLeave It to Beaver (1997)
The Cleavers are an all-American family living in Ohio – wise father Ward, loving mother June, teenage son Wally, and 8-year-old Theodore, better known as 'Beaver'. Beaver hopes to get a bike as a gift from his father and to please him tries out for his school football team and he makes it, only to be embarrassed. The bike he gets is quickly stolen. Meanwhile, Wally is trying to help his friend Eddie Haskell to get the heart of pretty classmate Karen, but Karen seems to like Wally more, and that leads to tensions between the friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training?
The closest matches to The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training are Rookie of the Year (1993), The Sandlot 2 (2005) and Little Big League (1994). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training?
People who watched The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training most often go on to Rookie of the Year (1993), The Sandlot 2 (2005) and Little Big League (1994).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training?
The Sandlot (1993), rated 7.6/10 by 1,404 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training?
Home Team (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Is The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to The Bad News Bears, which includes The Bad News Bears (1976).
Are there English movies like The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training?
Yes: Rookie of the Year (1993), The Sandlot 2 (2005) and Little Big League (1994).
How are movies similar to The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.