Movies like Slamma Jamma (2017)
The best movies like Slamma Jamma (2017) are Hurricane Season (2010), Fakin' Da Funk (1997) and Glory Road (2006). If Slamma Jamma 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 3,442 votes
- NewestWhite Men Can't Jump (2023)Released 2023
Hurricane Season (2010)
Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach Al Collins, gathers other players from hard-hit schools and builds a team actually worthy enough to go to the state playoffs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFakin' 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
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 thisWolves (2016)
Anthony Keller, star of his NYC high school basketball team, is riding his way to Cornell on a sports scholarship. But he can only maintain his popular jock facade for so long, as his troubled father Lee has a gambling addiction that threatens to derail his dreams both on and off the court.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like this1000 to 1 (2014)
Cory Weissman is a college basketball player who suffers a devastating stroke. He perseveres to find new meaning in his life both on, and more importantly, off the court.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisRise (2022)
After emigrating to Greece from Nigeria, Vera and Charles Antetokounmpo struggled to survive and provide for their five children, while living under the daily threat of deportation. Desperate to obtain Greek citizenship but undermined by a system that blocked them at every turn, the family's vision, determination and faith lifted them out of obscurity to launch the careers of three NBA champions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhite 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 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 thisNew Hope (2012)
High school senior Michael (the son of a preacher and a Christian) is the new guy in a small town still reeling from a high school basketball star's unforeseen suicide of a year ago.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
He Got Game (1998)
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFruitvale Station (2013)
Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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 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 thisImperial Dreams (2014)
A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll Things Fall Apart (2011)
50 Cent stars as gifted college running back Deon in this touching drama. Deon's world turns upside down when an unexpected crisis jeopardizes his professional ambitions -- and causes him to look at himself and his life in a new way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisKing of the Dancehall (2017)
Nick Cannon directs and stars in this high-energy musical about a young man from Brooklyn who gets caught up in the vibrant Kingston music scene during a visit to Jamaica.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Winnie 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
Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983)
Zack Homer takes over managing the barbershop after Joe is killed for trying to rip off his "investor", Mr. Lovejoy. All Zack wants to do is run a traditional barbershop giving traditional haircuts, but modern styles have passed him by and business is slow. One evening, Mr. Lovejoy shows up to offer Zack the same deal he gave to Joe. It could turn his business around, but what will he have to give in return?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Slam (1998)
Raymond Joshua, a young black performance poet, is arrested and imprisoned for a petty marijuana charge in a Washington, D.C. jail. Although the confining prison walls do little to shield him from danger, it is within those walls that Raymond establishes his identity, strength, and voice and meets a prison gang leader and a prison writing teacher, Lauren Bell. Bell inspires Raymond to use the power of creative expression to free himself from the struggles and demise of the Black male as another victim of the judicial system.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Red Hook Summer (2012)
When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well have landed on Mars. Fresh from his cushy life in Atlanta, he’s bored and friendless, and his strict grandfather, Enoch, a firebrand preacher, is bent on getting him to accept Jesus Christ as his personal savior. Only Chazz, the feisty girl from church, provides a diversion from the drudgery. As hot summer simmers and Sunday mornings brim with Enoch’s operatic sermons, things turn anything but dull as people’s conflicting agendas collide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Black and White (1999)
Rich Bower is an up-and-coming star in the hip-hop world. Everyone wants to be around him, including Raven and her fellow upper-class white high school friends. The growing appeal of black culture among white teens fascinates documentary filmmaker Sam Donager, who sets out to chronicle it with her husband, Terry. But before Bower was a rapper, he was a gangster, and his criminal past comes back to haunt him and all those around him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisPimp (2018)
An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and girlfriend Nikki.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBurden (2018)
Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subsequently falls in love with a single mother and, under her influence, quits the Klan and is taken in by an African American Reverend.
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
Paid in Full (2002)
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky breaks and solid interpersonal skills, Ace moves to the top of the Harlem drug world. Of course, unfaithful employees and/or rivals conspire to bring about Ace's fall.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisChocolate City (2015)
Life for a struggling college student changes in an instant when he meets the owner of a male strip club who convinces him to give amateur night a whirl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisNigerian Prince (2018)
After being sent to Nigeria against his will, a stubborn Nigerian-American teenager joins forces with an internet scammer in order to return to the United States.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Resurrecting the Champ (2007)
Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Slamma Jamma?
The closest matches to Slamma Jamma are Hurricane Season (2010), Fakin' Da Funk (1997) and Glory Road (2006). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Slamma Jamma?
People who watched Slamma Jamma most often go on to Hurricane Season (2010), Fakin' Da Funk (1997) and Glory Road (2006).
What is the highest-rated movie like Slamma Jamma?
Coach Carter (2005), rated 7.6/10 by 3,442 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Slamma Jamma?
White Men Can't Jump (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Slamma Jamma?
Yes: Hurricane Season (2010), Fakin' Da Funk (1997) and Glory Road (2006).
How are movies similar to Slamma Jamma chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Slamma Jamma, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.