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10 Best Movies Like Amateur

If you loved Amateur, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Blue Chips

Blue Chips

1994★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Amateur for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 boost...

#2
Amateur

Amateur

2018★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Amateur for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

14-year-old basketball phenom Terron Forte has to navigate the under-the-table world of amateur athletics when he is recruited to an elite NCAA prep school....

#3
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Amateur for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 gettin...

#4
Home Run

Home Run

2013★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Amateur for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties f...

#5
Above the Rim

Above the Rim

1994★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Amateur for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 empl...

#6
Brotherly Love

Brotherly Love

2015★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Amateur for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

West Philadelphia basketball star Sergio Taylor deals with the pressures of fame while his brother and sister have their own issues with ambition....

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