Movies like Hurricane Season (2010)
The best movies like Hurricane Season (2010) are Glory Road (2006), Slamma Jamma (2017) and Rebound (2023). If Hurricane Season hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedCoach Carter (2005)7.6/10 from 3,444 votes
- NewestWhite Men Can't Jump (2023)Released 2023
Glory Road (2006)
In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSlamma Jamma (2017)
Wrongfully accused and sent to prison, a former basketball star prepares for the national slam dunk competition while finding redemption in himself and in those he loves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Rebound (2023)
This true story retells the incredible tale of the 2012 National High School Basketball Championship, in which a new coach and six players from the weakest basketball team ran nonstop for eight days.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Fakin' Da Funk (1997)
Chinese kid Julian, who was adopted by the black family of Joe and Annabelle Lee -- and Asian exchange student May-Ling, who is housed with a black family -- are trying to adapt to their mostly black neighborhood of South Central.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Thunderstruck (2012)
After 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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSunset Park (1996)
A white teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined Black high school basketball team and turns them into winners.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Blue Chips (1994)
Pete 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 college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mighty Macs (2011)
In 1971, Cathy Rush becomes the head basketball coach at a tiny, all-girls Catholic college. Though her team has no gym and no uniforms — and the school itself is in danger of being sold — Rush looks to steer her girls to their first national championship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHigh Flying Bird (2019)
When an NBA lockout sidelines his big rookie client, an agent hatches a bold plan to save their careers -- and disrupt the league's power structure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBelieve in Me (2006)
In a conservative small town, a young man's wish to coach high school basketball are tweaked by a school board decision that makes him the new coach of the girls' team.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Champions (2023)
A stubborn and hotheaded minor league basketball coach is forced to train a Special Olympics team when he is sentenced to community service.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAbove the Rim (1994)
Story 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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSpirit of the Game (2016)
In the lead up to the 1956 Olympic games, a group of missionaries are tasked with helping the fledgling Australian basketball team compete in their first ever Olympics, and in doing so, unite a nation still coming to grips after the war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
White Men Can't Jump (2023)
Seemingly 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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCoach Carter (2005)
Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Winning Season (2009)
A comedy centered on a has-been coach who is given a shot at redemption when he's asked to run his local high school's girls basketball team
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEddie (1996)
Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, "Wild Bill" Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations gimmick, stages an 'honorary coach' contest, which Eddie wins. The fans love it, so "Wild Bill" fires the coach and hires her. She takes the bunch of overpaid prima
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisFrom the Rough (2013)
The coach of a women's swim team parlays her success into an opportunity to build her school's men's golf team.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Air (2023)
Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and culture with the Air Jordan brand.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLove & Basketball (2000)
Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPride (2007)
Coach Jim Ellis shocks the community and changes lives when, aided by a local janitor, he sets out to form Philadelphia's first black swim team. But the odds are against them as they battle rigid rules, racism and more.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKnights of the South Bronx (2005)
A business man decides that he wants to teach school in the inner city and chooses a tough school in the South Bronx. He teaches the children how to play the game of chess, and along the way they learn a lot about life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Hardball (2001)
An 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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Miracle Season (2018)
After the tragic death of star volleyball player Caroline "Line" Found, a team of dispirited high school girls must band together under the guidance of their tough-love coach in hopes of winning the state championship!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBrotherly Love (2015)
West Philadelphia basketball star Sergio Taylor deals with the pressures of fame while his brother and sister have their own issues with ambition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJust Wright (2010)
Physical therapist Leslie Wright lands the dream job of working with basketball superstar Scott McKnight, helping him recover from a career-threatening injury. All goes well and soon Leslie finds herself falling in love with him. Just as their friendship deepens, however, Scott focuses his attention back on his tenuous relationship with his ex-fiancé Morgan, Leslie's gorgeous godsister, who would love to be the basketball player's trophy wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Great Debaters (2007)
The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWinnie Mandela (2011)
A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husband's incarceration.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
All Together Now (2020)
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDeepwater Horizon (2016)
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Hurricane Season?
The closest matches to Hurricane Season are Glory Road (2006), Slamma Jamma (2017) and Rebound (2023). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Hurricane Season?
People who watched Hurricane Season most often go on to Glory Road (2006), Slamma Jamma (2017) and Rebound (2023).
What is the highest-rated movie like Hurricane Season?
Coach Carter (2005), rated 7.6/10 by 3,444 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Hurricane Season?
White Men Can't Jump (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Hurricane Season?
Yes: Glory Road (2006), Slamma Jamma (2017) and Fakin' Da Funk (1997).
How are movies similar to Hurricane Season chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Hurricane Season, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.