Movies like Madison
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Madison (2001)
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1971, air-conditioner repairman and boat enthusiast Jim McCormick entertains his desire to 'go down' as a legend in the record books when the Gold Cup hydroplane boat race improbably comes to his small town of Madison, Indiana. Immediately, Jim seizes his opportunity to enter the contest. With a motley crew of fellow mechanics and friends at his side, Jim fixes up his old boat and brings hope to the blighted industrial city. Written by Sujit R. Varma
Style:
feel good, serious, realistic, melancholic
Audience:
kids
Plot:
ship, athlete's life, human spirit, follow your dream, against the odds, friendship, rivalry, unemployment, ambition, contests and competitions, lifestyle, hopes, rising to stardom, father son relationship, friends, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, athlete and trainer, society, small town, city life, social relations, underdog, small town life ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, indiana
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Most similar movies to Madison
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films with plots about hopes, ambition, sport, athlete and trainer, rivalry, contests and competitions and athlete's life mostly in Drama, Sport and Family genres. Some movies like Madison: Cloud 9 (2014), Believe in Me (2006), The Final Season (2007), Undefeated (2003), A Shot at Glory (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set high atop snow-capped mountains in the adrenaline-fueled world of competitive snowboarding, the Disney Channel Original Movie “Cloud 9″ tells the inspiring story of two snowboarders who must overcome self-doubt to learn that achieving their ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
snowboarding, follow your dream, couples, rivalry, parents and children, opposites attract, extreme sport, contests and competitions, athlete's life, ski resort, ambition, one more chance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
utah, seattle, usa
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100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, inspirational
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
basketball, sport, small town, hopes, ambition, prodigy, rivalry, underdog, contests and competitions, youth, against the odds, sport team ...
Time:
60s
Place:
oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
True story of Kent Stock, who in the early 90's, gives up a job and ditches his wedding plans to take over as head coach as the Norway High School baseball team. Kent must win over his players and convince them and himself that he can fill ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
baseball, sport, coach, sport team, small town, ambition, against the odds, one last chance, hopes, athlete's life, youth, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Lex 'El Animal' Vargas is a promising Portorican boxer in Queens, but lacks ambition to aim for the big career. That changes after his brother Paulie is accidentally shot dead by a teenager in an amateur hold-up on their late dad's ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere
Plot:
sport, athlete's life, human spirit, lifestyle, social differences, against the odds, tough heroes, rise to the top, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, follow your dream, ambition ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Scottish second division football team Kilnockie is taken over by American Pete Cameron. The new owner puts pressure on manager Gordon McLeod to improve the fortunes of the team, and hires first division player Jackie McQuillan.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, inspirational, captivating, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sport, soccer, follow your dream, human spirit, athlete's life, underdog, ambition, lifestyle, against the odds, friendship, sport team, rivalry ...
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The coach of a women's swim team parlays her success into an opportunity to build her school's men's golf team.
Style:
captivating, uplifting, serious, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, boys' night
Plot:
against the odds, golf, sport, athlete's life, human spirit, once in a lifetime opportunity, athlete and trainer, follow your dream, lifestyle, ambition, social misfits, hopes ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A teenage drifter finds an opportunity to turn his life around when he joins a high-school football program with a hard-nosed coach.
Style:
serious, realistic, feel good, touching, sincere
Plot:
american football, high school, small town, human spirit, athlete's life, leadership, teenage life, against the odds, lifestyle, sport, society, rivalry ...
Place:
alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When an 11 year old boy gets cut from his Little League baseball team, he sets out to form his own team.
Style:
humorous, touching, sentimental, feel good, non-linear ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
coach, ambition, follow your dream, against the odds, friendship, sport team, sport, human spirit, athlete's life, society, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Defining street basketball as America's new favorite pastime, it is a story driven by passion, faith, and achieving goals. A story capturing the poetic nature of street basketball, highlighting the struggles endured on and off the court by the ...
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
basketball, lifestyle, ambition, family problems, hopes, contests and competitions, society, life is a bitch, rivalry, athlete's life, sport, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Henry Steele is a basketball phenom at his small town high school, but when he matriculates to a big city university on a scholarship, soon realizes that he has few skills outside the sport. Expected by his coach to contribute significantly to the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, melancholic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, college, coach, young lovers, ambition, follow your dream, sport, youth, coming of age, athlete and trainer, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set in rural Ohio, the birthplace of football, UNDERDOGS is the story of a small-town high school football team destined to play their cross-town rival, a perennial powerhouse, while standing up for an entire community.
Style:
feel good, realistic, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
american football, cheerleader, high school football, high school, underdog, sport team, sport, athlete and trainer, youth, human spirit, ambition, follow your dream ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A native-American lacrosse team makes its way through a prep school league tournament.
Style:
uplifting, exciting, feel good, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
native american, lacrosse, sport, high school, contests and competitions, hopes, ambition, human spirit, rivalry, social relations, against the odds, preparatory school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Former champion boxer Orlando Leone (Carmen) is "The Preacher" at an inner-city youth center. Wanting to give something back to the community, he bought a large building for a church youth center. But the cash ran out before he could ...
Style:
serious, realistic, christian film, sincere
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
boxing, christian, ambition, human spirit, rivalry, athlete's life, tough heroes, against the odds, lifestyle, contests and competitions, follow your dream, relationship vs career ...
Place:
usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Patty Sullivan (Erica Eleniak) is a battered woman who decides to take charge of her life by taking boxing lessons to better protect herself when her boyfriend becomes violent. Patty soon learns she has some talent for boxing and sets her sights on ...
Style:
serious, rough, sincere, feminist film, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
boxing, female boxer, against the odds, ambition, human spirit, follow your dream, athlete's life, lifestyle, rise to the top, sport, rivalry, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Story revolves around a young boxer, Izzy Daniels, who trains to follow in his father's footsteps by winning the Golden Glove. When his friend, Mary, however, asks him to substitute for a team member in a Double Dutch tournament, the young man ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
sport, human spirit, friendship, follow your dream, athlete's life, against the odds, disney, lifestyle, ambition, teenage life, teenager, contests and competitions ...
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is linked with two others: The family of a young boy is split due to the events in World War II, and the father returns from Russia after eleven years. The second ...
Style:
exciting, sentimental, feel good, realistic, serious
Plot:
soccer, sport, working class, pow, human spirit, follow your dream, athlete's life, against the odds, contests and competitions, rivalry, ambition, society ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
budapest, europe, west germany, germany, hungary ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Tom Berenger leads an outstanding cast in this bone-crunching dramatization of legendary college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's debut at Texas A&M in the summer of 1954. The often unnerving story finds Bryant ducking the ...
Style:
tense, serious, sincere, captivating, realistic
Plot:
american football, sport, discrimination, contests and competitions, hopes, against the odds, teachers and students, tough heroes, human spirit, college, underdog, university ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, alabama, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Major League Baseball scout must find promising young player to save his job and his team.
Style:
realistic, serious, feel good
Plot:
baseball, scout, power relations, sport team, major league, countryside, relationship vs career, against the odds, americana, underdog, sport, lifestyle ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
idaho, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ian Willams -- who was born blind in one eye -- grew up undaunted to become an elite college basketball player. But his dream of winning a national championship and turning pro was sidetracked when a tragic accident left him completely blind. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
blindness, against the odds, prodigy, disability, human spirit, ambition, follow your dream, dedicated educator, sport, life is a bitch, athlete's life, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Faced with the suspicious death of their father, two brothers must motivate one another to get back on their bikes and take the Las Vegas Motocross Championships by storm.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, tense, saga
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sport, human spirit, rivalry, against the odds, athlete's life, ambition, friendship, relationship vs career, lifestyle, contests and competitions, ego clash, rising to stardom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A Biographical story of Dale Earnhardt, Sr. The movie starts with his young life and growing up with his father, Ralph, who raced for a living, but initially wanted more for his son. When Dale quits high school to start driving full time, his ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, sentimental
Plot:
lifestyle, human spirit, ambition, rising to stardom, rivalry, family relations, hopes, sport, contests and competitions, family life, parents and children, auto racing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
"A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers" is based on the best-selling book by John Feinstein. The movie chronicles Indiana's 1985-86 season, when Knight granted Feinstein unprecedented access to the ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
athlete's life, rivalry, ambition, sport team, contests and competitions, sport, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, underdog, hopes, basketball, vulgarity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
Style:
uplifting, feel good, touching, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick
Plot:
running, sport, follow your dream, contests and competitions, sport team, society, lifestyle, ambition, friendship, athlete's life, ego clash, rivalry ...
Time:
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Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on the incredible true story of amateur cyclist Graeme Obree, who breaks the world one-hour record on a bike he made out of washing machine parts.
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, captivating, inspirational
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bicycle, sport, human spirit, cyclist, scot, underdog, race, ambition, lifestyle, hopes, contests and competitions, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson are the greatest players in the Colored leagues, and everyone expects that one of them will make the leap to the Major Leagues, now that there is talk of integration. But, unexpectedly, it's the rookie with the ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
baseball, african american, blaxploitation, racial issues, racism, friendship, interracial relations, historical figure, major league, sport team, friends, injustice ...
Place:
usa, new york, birmingham alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
An ex-boxer Baldev Choudhary (Dharmendra) has had a stain in his boxing career. He wanted to wash it with his son Angad's (Sunny Deol) success, but times were hard and a financial crunch kept him from achieving this dream. Though Angad pulled ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, emotional
Plot:
boxing, sport, family relations, ambition, rise to the top, follow your dream, athlete's life, hopes, once promising, athlete and trainer, rivalry, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, punjab
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jimmy Albright is a young athlete with a passion for boxing. His mentor, Harry Sloan, an aging trainer and former boxer, sees Jimmy's potential, not only as a boxer but as a young man. With Harry's guidance, Jimmy trains and fights his way ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, psychological, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
boxing, youth, family relations, human spirit, athlete's life, lifestyle, hopes, rise to the top, underdog, aging, athlete and trainer, supportive spouse ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A drama revolving around characters whose lives are transformed one summer at an exclusive East Coast country club.
Style:
serious, sentimental, sincere, scenic, realistic
Plot:
golf, youth, ambition, prodigy, athlete's life, lifestyle, human spirit, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, teachers and students, social differences, single parent ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A story about the great basketball player "Pistol" Pete Maravich when he was in the eighth grade. He plays on the varsity basketball team at Daniel High School but has some very difficult obstacles standing in his way of playing. The only ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
basketball, sport, youth, power relations, sport team, human spirit, life is a bitch, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, prodigy, tragic hero, ambition ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the early 70s, 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 -- Coach Rush looks to steer her girls to their ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, emotional, sincere, light ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
basketball, college, mother superior, catholic school, sport, human spirit, against the odds, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, ambition, hopes, catholic ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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