Movies like Running

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Running (1979)
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Running (1979)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An Olympic hopeful marathon runner hopes his success will be the answer to his marriage woes and other personal problems.
Plot: fitness, running, runner, olympics, track and field, divorce, family relations, city, male female relationship, athlete, marathon, marriage, medal, athletics, based on real people
Time: year 1979, 70s, year 1976
Place: new york
Keyword: sport

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and uplifting films with plots about running, track and field, athlete, olympics, runner, ambition and athlete's life mostly in Drama, Sport and Biography genres. Some movies like Running: Tracktown (2016), The Loneliest Runner (1976), Road to Boston (2023), Babe (1975), Goldengirl (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tracktown (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A bright, talented and lonely long-distance runner twists her ankle as she prepares for the Olympic Trials and must do something she's never done before: take a day off.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic comedy, romantic ...
Plot: running, coming of age, olympics, ambitious woman, female protagonist, athlete's life, sex scene, loneliness, boyfriend, mother daughter estrangement, crush, bare breasts ...
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100%
The Loneliest Runner (1976)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A teenage bedwetter overcomes the obstacles to be a champion runner.
Style: sad
Plot: running, track and field, olympics, motivation, runner, biopic, child abuse, humiliation, childhood trauma, marathon, athlete, loneliness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Road to Boston (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A rousing tale of the Korean athletes who ran the 1947 Boston International Marathon, the first international marathon held since World War II.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, road movie, period piece ...
Plot: marathon, athlete, running, sport competition, professional rivalry, ambition, problem, competition, runner, track and field, japanese occupation of korea, gold ...
Time: 1940s, year 1947, 20th century, 1930s, year 1936
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Babe (1975)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: This is the life story of Babe Didrikson Zaharias, one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century, from her early Texas tomboy days to her Gold Medal triumphs at the 1932 Olympics, her remarkable career as a champion golfer, her fulfilling ...
Plot: golf, olympics, running, sexism, biopic, track and field, female athlete, cancer, athlete, medal, gold, based on real people ...
Time: 1930s, year 1932
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Goldengirl (1979)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A neo-Nazi Doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised & Conditioned since she was a child to run in the Olympics.
Style: spooky, independent film
Plot: olympics, running, women, track and field, competition, exploitation, daughter, doctor
Time: year 1979
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Running Brave (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of Billy Mills the American Indian that came from obscurity, to win the 10,000 meter long distance foot race in the Tokyo Olympics.
Style: inspirational, period piece, uplifting, captivating, serious ...
Plot: running, olympics, track and field, runner, native american, motivation, native, male objectification, society, rivalry, contests and competitions, ambition ...
Time: year 1983, 60s, 20th century, year 1964
Place: kansas, south dakota, usa
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35%
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Pacemaker (2011)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Man-ho is a pacemaker for Korean national marathon team. His purpose is to stay ahead of others until the 30km mark. But he gradually grows a desire to run for the victory.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: marathon, athlete, track and field, runner, athletics, athlete's life, ambitious man, professional sports, direction and purpose, male protagonist, ambition, desire
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Dernier stade (1994)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland, Germany
Story: No overview found
Plot: running, nudity, male female relationship, twenty something, winning, health, female nudity, doctor, competition, coach, steroids, reporter ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Long Run (2001)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: South Africa
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Marathon is a 90-k race in South Africa. An aging running coach, Barry, wants to field a winner; he's working with four men from a factory, but ...
Style: uplifting, serious, touching, feel good, sincere ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: runner, interracial relations, obsession, running, ambition, human spirit, rivalry, contests and competitions, society, athlete and trainer, track and field, female athlete ...
Time: 90s
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Personal Best (1982)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: This film chronicles the relationship of two female world-class athletes. Mariel Hemingway and real-life Olympian pentathlete Patrice Donnelly play runners who train together, compete against each other and eventually become lovers. Scott Glenn ...
Style: sexual, erotic, uplifting, tense, touching ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, nudity, running, lesbian relationship, lgbtq, track and field, gay, olympics, female nudity, female athlete, sexuality ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 70s, 20th century, year 1976 ...
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
A Shining Season (1979)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The true story of University of New Mexico track star John Baker who, dying of cancer, spent his remaining time coaching a losing girls" track team to a winning season.
Plot: running, track and field, inspiration, terminal illness, struggle, coach, team, athlete, footprint
Place: new mexico
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30%
Without Limits (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to the University of Oregon where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman, later to Olympics in Munich and his early death at 24 in a car crash.
Style: inspirational, sincere, factual, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: olympics, running, runner, track and field, competition, athlete's life, hopes, contests and competitions, human spirit, ambition, rivalry, lifestyle ...
Time: year 1998, 70s, 20th century, year 1972, year 1970 ...
Place: usa, finland, helsinki finland, munich germany, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Jesse Owens Story (1984)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story: The Jesse Owens Story is a biographical film about the black athlete Jesse Owens. Dorian Harewood plays the Olympic gold-winning athlete. The drama won a 1985 Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for two more.
Plot: olympics, african american, track and field, running, runner, racism, overcoming, conflict, freedom, motivation, black history, nazi germany ...
Time: 1930s
Place: cleveland ohio, berlin germany, chicago
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28%
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Fast Girls (2012)
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, exciting, touching, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, teens
Plot: running, follow your dream, contests and competitions, society, sport team, lifestyle, friendship, athlete's life, ego clash, social differences, rivalry, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Jericho Mile (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Rain Murphy is a man sentenced to life in prison, choosing to do his time in near-isolation, and engages in distance running when given the opportunity for free-time. While his form and speed capture the attention of prison officials who believe he ...
Style: inspirational, realistic, serious, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot: running, prison, runner, prisoner, track and field, race, racism, gang, fistfight, revenge, jail, olympics ...
Time: 70s
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27%
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Fair Play (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the 1980s, Anna, a Czech sprinter, starts training for the Olympics. After she collapses during training, she learns she is being given steroids and decides to stop using them until her mother helps the coaches give them to her.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, touching
Plot: female athlete, athlete's life, ambition, rivalry, family relations, youth, hopes, life is a bitch, contests and competitions, society, parents and children, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century, year 1984
Place: czechoslovakia, europe, czech republic
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26%
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Race (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Based on the incredible true story of Jesse Owens, the legendary athletic superstar whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf ...
Style: inspirational, factual, political, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: racism, olympics, track and field, african american, nazi, racial prejudice, nazi germany, running, biopic, racial segregation, athlete, world war two ...
Time: year 1936, 1930s, year 1933, 20th century
Place: berlin germany, germany, usa, cleveland ohio, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The true story of Olympic gold medalist Gail Devers (Charlayne Woodard) and her fight to combat Graves disease while becoming the fastest female sprinter in the world. From a setback in Seoul that nearly costs her the use of her feet to her ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, uplifting
Plot: running, olympics, track and field, radiation, disability, power relations, contests and competitions, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, human spirit, unfulfillment, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: seoul, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Terry Fox Story (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.
Style: sad, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Plot: running, physical disability, runner, illness, disability, heroes, cross country, biopic, family problems, family relations, athlete's life, doctors and patients ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century, 70s
Place: newfoundland, canada, british columbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Games (1970)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Four marathon runners (one from England, one from the U.S., a Czech and an Australian Aborigine) prepare to run in the Olympic games. The film follows each one and shows what their motivations are for running in the games.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, uplifting, rough
Plot: running, olympics, track and field, bookies, culture clash, destiny, love affair, athlete's life, rivalry, human spirit, athlete and trainer, hopes ...
Time: 60s
Place: rome italy, europe, italy, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Miracle of Kathy Miller (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: With the support of her parents (Sharon Gless & Frank Converse), an Arizona adolescent (Helen Hunt) overcomes severe injuries to run in a 10K race.
Plot: running, perseverance, finding yourself, believe in yourself, waking up from a coma, car accident, teenage girl, teenager, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, accident ...
Place: arizona
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24%
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Prefontaine (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: It's the true-life story of legendary track star Steve Prefontaine, the exciting and sometimes controversial "James Dean of Track," whose spirit captured the heart of the nation! Cocky, charismatic, and tough, "Pre" was a ...
Style: factual, talky, intense, serious, rough ...
Plot: olympics, runner, underdog, running, justice, athlete's life, human spirit, contests and competitions, american football, lifestyle, hopes, track and field ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 70s, 60s, year 1969 ...
Place: usa, seattle, oregon, finland, mexico city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Long-Distance Running Tactics (1978)
Genre: Drama, Sport, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 65 min.
Plot: running, world war two, nurse, doctor, officer, partisan, runner, athlete, fascist
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Chariots of Fire (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The true story of British athletes preparing for and competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Style: inspirational, period piece, christian film, historical drama, costume drama ...
Audience: family outing, date night, teens, kids
Plot: christian, olympics, running, faith, prejudice, athlete, integrity, missionary, runner, religion, racing, catholic ...
Time: 1920s, 1910s, 20th century, post world war one, year 1978 ...
Place: scotland, england, israel, paris france, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Four Minutes (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sir Roger Bannister's historic running of the sub-four-minute mile is celebrated in Four Minutes, an inspiring and respectably authentic TV movie about breaking the most famous barrier in the history of sports.
Plot: running, runner, track and field, cambridge university, male female relationship, twenty something, jazz, new year, boat, pianist, race, patient ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, year 1954, year 1952, year 1947 ...
Place: helsinki finland, oxford university, mount everest
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
4 Minute Mile (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A teenager overcomes odds to run a 4-minute mile race.
Style: realistic, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, serious ...
Plot: track and field, single parent, running, training, high school, athlete and trainer, brother brother relationship, family problems, contests and competitions, haunted by the past, teenage life, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, seattle, washington d.c.
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22%
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Miracle (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: In 1980, the United States Ice Hockey team's coach, Herb Brooks, put a ragtag squad of college kids up against the legendary juggernaut from the Soviet Union at the Olympic Games. Despite the long odds, Team USA carried the pride of a nation ...
Style: uplifting, touching, factual, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, family outing, family friendly, teens
Plot: ice hockey, olympics, underdog, hockey, mentor, human spirit, coach, sport team, grudge, contests and competitions, athlete's life, opponent ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 70s, year 2004, year 1980
Place: usa, minnesota, milwaukee wisconsin, new york, colorado ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Run Milkha Run (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 186 min.
Story: The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.
Style: inspirational, realistic, cult classic, meditative, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: rise to the top, olympics, biopic, running, life, athlete's life, indians, lifestyle, rising to stardom, follow your dream, ambition, contests and competitions ...
Time: year 2013, 60s, 20th century, 50s, year 1947 ...
Place: india, middle east, asia, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Run for Your Life (1988)
Genre: Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Major Charles Forsythe (Carradine) is a Vietnam veteran U.S. Army officer stationed near Rome. He is a brutal, if effective, commander who was "fragged" by his own men in Vietnam. When he is denied promotion because of the number of men ...
Plot: track and field, running, revenge, u.s. army, marathon, coach, veteran, officer, miscarriage, abusive husband
Place: italy, vietnam, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
JUMP!!:The Heroes Behind the GOLD (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Story about 1998 Nagano Olympic ski jump team competition, where Japan won a gold medal.
Style: entertaining, dramatic, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: olympics, competition, athlete, sporting event, sport team, sports man, winter sports, professional athlete, sport competition, ski, professional sports, team ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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