Movies like Twelve (2019)
The best movies like Twelve (2019) are The Rocket (2018), Touchback (2011) and Undrafted (2016). If Twelve hooked you with its family and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMcFarland, USA (2015)7.5/10 from 986 votes
- NewestYoungblood (2026)Released 2026
The Rocket (2018)
“The Rocket" is a small town story inspired by true events, about a high school football star who suffers a severe head injury and loses his entire life plan. The heaviness of a broken relationship with his father, and losing the identity of "football star" push him to seek a new way to prove himself. Restricted from playing any sports and despite being an unlikely runner, the cross country coach brings the young man aboard his high school team out of necessity, and through much struggle, doubt, and determination, he finds a new way to push towards greatness. With colorful characters, youthful insights, and nostalgic storytelling, "The Rocket" brings together the elements of family, loss, failure, and redemption. The entire story is based on real characters and events that took place in the mid-west in 1999.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Touchback (2011)
A former high-school football star loses his shot at a college scholarship due to a devastating gridiron injury, but gets a second chance at living his dream.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUndrafted (2016)
A team of misfit intramural baseball players become important to a player who was overlooked in the MLB draft, as he tries to come to grips with his dashed dream.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Race To Win (2016)
After losing her father, a young women must find the strength to face her fears and compete in the race of her life or her family will lose everything.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Back of the Net (2019)
A new student at a soccer academy is determined to beat her rival's team in the national tournament.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKnockout (2011)
Outsider and new kid Matthew desperately wants to join his high school's boxing team, but resident bully and boxing champion Hector stands in his way. Facing constant torment, Matthew finds an unlikely ally in Dan, the school's janitor and one-time amateur boxer. Together, they train for the biggest boxing match of Matthew's life and discover what it truly means to be a winner.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisRound of Your Life (2019)
When a car accident leaves his father in a coma, a 15-year-old prodigy joins his high school golf team to try and win the state title for his dad.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
McFarland, USA (2015)
A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLoop (2020)
A non-verbal, autistic girl and a chatty boy are partnered on a canoeing trip. To complete their journey across an urban lake, they must both learn how the other experiences the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMilton's Secret (2016)
11 year-old Milton Adams is growing up in an uncertain world. With his parents constantly stressing about their careers and finances, and the neighborhood bully tormenting him, Milton feels his whole world is in crisis. But when his Grandpa Howard comes to visit, he discovers anxiety about the past and worrying about the future only make things worse and prevent him from finding true happiness moment to moment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Epiphany (2019)
A young girl struggles to create a relationship with her father after the death of her aunt who raised her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
One Hit From Home (2012)
After suffering a career ending knee injury, pro-baseball superstar Jimmy Easton returns to a place he has not been in a very long time.... home. Here, Jimmy confronts dark memories from a tragic past as he tries to make peace with a life he once left behind. Things take an unexpected turn when he is forced back into the world of baseball as the coach of an underachieving college team.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Greater (2016)
The incredible true story of the greatest walk-on in the history of college football.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTeam Marco (2020)
12-year-old Marco is obsessed with his iPad and hardly leaves the house. But when his grandmother dies and his grandfather moves in, Marco's life is turned upside-down and he's forced...to go play outside. 'Nonno"'(Grandpa) introduces him to bocce ball and to the neighborhood crew of old Italian men who play daily at the local court. With sport, laughter and love, Marco finds connection to others and rounds up a team of neighborhood kids to take on Nonno and his pals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Heart of a Champion (2023)
A 14-year-old coping with the divorce of her parents, a new school and typical teenage growing pains finds purpose and pride in a lost horse she cares for and trains for a state competition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
The Long Game (2024)
In a segregated Texas, five Mexican-American teenage caddies were prohibited from playing at the country club where they worked. Against all odds, they formed their own team, built a one-hole course in the fields, and won the 1957 Texas State championship. Based on a true story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Adventure Club (2017)
With the discovery of an ancient puzzle box, a Boy, with the help of his friends, begins an adventure to find his fortune.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Late Afternoon (2019)
Emily finds herself disconnected from the world around her. She goes on a journey through her memories and relives different moments from her life. Emily must look to her past so that she may fully embrace the present.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisChang Can Dunk (2023)
Chang, a 16-year-old, Asian American, bets the high school basketball star that he can dunk by Homecoming. The bet leads 5' 8" Chang on a quest to learn to dunk—not only to impress his crush, Kristy, but to gain the respect of his high school peers too. But before he can rise up and truly throw one down, he'll have to reexamine everything he knows about himself, his friendships and his family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYou Gotta Believe (2024)
After dedicating the season to a teammate’s ailing father, a group of underestimated Ft. Worth youth baseball players takes its Cinderella run all the way to the 2002 Little League World Series—culminating in a record-breaking showdown that became an instant ESPN classic.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisYoungblood (2026)
Hockey prodigy Dean Youngblood joins the Hamilton Mustangs and has to deal with toxic behavior during his journey to the National Hockey League draft.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Skater Girl (2021)
Prerna, a teenager growing up in rural India, comes of age when she’s introduced to the sport of skateboarding. As a result, she has to fight the odds to follow her dreams and compete in the national championship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOrphan Horse (2018)
A retired horse trainer finds a young runaway girl in his barn. Skeptic at first, he let's her stay and a friendship develops while he discovers her heart and talent for horses.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Toolsidas Junior (2022)
A young boy seeks to master the game of snooker to defend his father’s legacy after a humiliating loss. But first, he’ll need help from a hardened pro.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Chasing a Dream (2009)
When high school football player Cam Stiles loses his best friend, he decides to drop football and focus on attaining his friend's goal of running a mile in under four minutes. Cam's decision tears apart his relationship with former teammates and his father—who happens to be his demanding football coach.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
I Believe (2019)
A 9 year old boy experiences God's power in a supernatural way.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFlicka (2006)
Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. The headstrong 16 year old then sets her mind to tame a mustang and prove to her father she can run the ranch. But when tragedy happens, it will take all the love and strength the family can muster to restore hope.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Perfect Game (2009)
Based on a true story, a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico who become the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Rookie (2002)
Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas, Jim's team makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, Jim will try out with a major-league organization. The bet proves incentive enough for the team, and they go from worst to first, making it to state for the first time in the history of the school. Jim, forced to live up to his end of the deal, is nearly laughed off the try-out field--until he gets onto the mound, where he confounds the scouts (and himself) by clocking successive 98 mph fastballs, good enough for a minor-league contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Jim's still got a lot of pitches to throw before he makes it to The Show, but with his big-league dreams revived, there's no telling where he could go.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhere the Red Fern Grows (2003)
Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for 2 years to achieve his dream of buying two coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in God as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with "Old Dan" and "Little Ann."
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & family
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Twelve?
The closest matches to Twelve are The Rocket (2018), Touchback (2011) and Undrafted (2016). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Twelve?
People who watched Twelve most often go on to The Rocket (2018), Touchback (2011) and Undrafted (2016).
What is the highest-rated movie like Twelve?
McFarland, USA (2015), rated 7.5/10 by 986 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Twelve?
Youngblood (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Twelve?
Yes: The Rocket (2018), Touchback (2011) and Undrafted (2016).
How are movies similar to Twelve chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Twelve, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.