Movies like A Shot at Glory
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A Shot at Glory (2000)
3K
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, cult classic, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
teens
Plot:
soccer, follow your dream, athlete's life, underdog, friendship, ambition, lifestyle, against the odds, football, athlete and trainer, rivalry, society, sport team, contests and competitions, relationship vs career, hopes, goalkeeper, friends, family relations, power relations, football player, fishing, businessman, father daughter relationship, football team ...
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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Most similar movies to A Shot at Glory
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, feel good and semi serious films with plots about ambition, contests and competitions, rivalry, athlete's life, hopes, athlete and trainer and lifestyle mostly in Sport, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like A Shot at Glory: Undefeated (2003), A Season on the Brink (2002), The Yankles (2009), Monday Night Mayhem (2002), Street Dreams (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
realistic, serious, sincere, suspense
Plot:
athlete's life, human spirit, lifestyle, social differences, against the odds, tough heroes, boxing, follow your dream, ambition, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, rivalry ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
basketball, athlete's life, rivalry, sport team, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, underdog, hopes, athlete, basketball coach, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
About Charlie Jones, a washed up, ex major league ballplayer, and how he gets a second chance at life and love by managing a Jewish, orthodox yeshiva baseball team.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, independent film ...
Plot:
against the odds, culture clash, rabbi, sport team, rivalry, society, ambition, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, religions or cults, hopes, baseball ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a major showcase. Executive Roone Arledge (John Heard) recruits former Dallas Cowboys quarterback ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
american football, ambition, rise to the top, introspection, contests and competitions, rivalry, celebrity culture, athlete's life, hopes, showbiz, gambling, american football player ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Derrick Cabrera, like all skateboarders, dreams of being sponsored one day. He has all the talent in the world to make it happen but some major roadblocks to overcome before he can make the dream a reality.
Style:
captivating, exciting, disturbing, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
skateboard, rivalry, athlete's life, lifestyle, ambition, teenage life, social misfits, rise to the top, athlete and trainer, obsession, misfit, extreme sports ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ohio, usa, florida
Similarity:
100%
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:
touching, sentimental, humorous, feel good, non-linear ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
coach, follow your dream, ambition, against the odds, friendship, sport team, athlete's life, human spirit, hopes, society, lifestyle, family life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
feel good, exciting, touching, uplifting, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing, teens
Plot:
running, follow your dream, contests and competitions, sport team, society, lifestyle, friendship, social differences, rivalry, ego clash, athlete's life, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
100%
18K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
This is all about chasing your dreams, no matter what the obstacles. The story involves a young deaf and dumb boy who is crazy about cricket.
Style:
realistic, inspirational, captivating, semi serious, light ...
Plot:
cricket, disability, lifestyle, prodigy, ambition, follow your dream, human spirit, against the odds, obsession, rise to the top, rivalry, hopes ...
Time:
y2k, 21st century
Place:
asia, india
Similarity:
100%
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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, spiritual
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
hopes, athlete and trainer, small town, youth, underdog, ambition, rivalry, contests and competitions, prodigy, against the odds, dedicated educator, human spirit ...
Time:
60s, year 2006
Place:
oklahoma, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After a life of hard knocks and wrong turns, boxer Ed Jones gets a second chance at fulfilling his life long dream of a World Boxing Championship. With the help of veteran promoter, Arliss King and the guidance of a former champ, Ed embarks on the ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, exciting, inspirational, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
boxing, athlete and trainer, rivalry, hopes, athlete's life, ambition, boxer, contests and competitions, championship, unfulfillment, self destructing, redemption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Full-Court Miracle is a 2003 Disney Channel Original Movie. It premiered on November 23, 2003. Inspired by the true story of University of Virginia basketball star Lamont Carr, the film centers on a group of young Jewish basketball players who ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
basketball, athlete's life, against the odds, sport team, contests and competitions, underdog, follow your dream, rivalry, athlete and trainer, fish out of water, win over, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Heather and Heidi play volleyball for their school team, when their family decides that they need to go to a bigger school so that they will have a better chance for scholarships. But at the new school, the twins are discovered by the basketball ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, chick flick
Plot:
twins, basketball, high school, against the odds, contests and competitions, ambition, family life, siblings relations, family relations, underdog, youth, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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:
sincere, serious, rough, independent 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, life is a bitch, rivalry, contests and competitions ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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, racism, baseball coach, black, racial issues, blaxploitation, baseball player, black man, hip hop, interracial relations, friendship ...
Time:
1940s, year 1947
Place:
usa, new york, birmingham alabama
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Dwarfs playing basketball... with Dennis Rodman.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic
Plot:
basketball, friends, sport team, athlete's life, hotshot hero, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, contests and competitions, hopes, rivalry, follow your dream, underdog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, venice beach california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team aren't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete ...
Style:
suspense, intense, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
basketball, underdog, college, sport team, contests and competitions, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, prodigy, lifestyle, athlete's life, blind ambition, self discovery ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 80s
Place:
chicago, indiana, california, boston, texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Story about two 18-year-old girls, Angie and Sandra, who want to dedicate themselves to women's professional boxing.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, suspense
Plot:
female boxer, family relations, friendship, athlete's life, ambition, athlete and trainer, parents and children, hopes, contests and competitions, lifestyle, family life, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
100%
260
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Ireland, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The story of an 11-year-old girl from a poor rural community who dreams of becoming a racing driver.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, sentimental, realistic
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
youth, best friend, young heroes, against the rules, follow your dream, against the odds, family relations, hopes, rivalry, contests and competitions, ambition, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Several players from different backgrounds try to cope with the pressures of playing football at a major university. Each deals with the pressure differently, some turn to drinking, others to drugs, and some to studying.
Style:
talky, intense, exciting, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
american football, football, football team, underdog, college football, justice, college life, lone hero, sport team, lifestyle, hopes, love triangle ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 80s
Place:
usa, texas, new jersey, california
Similarity:
100%
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, touching, feel good, serious, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night, teens
Plot:
golf, against the odds, human spirit, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, follow your dream, once in a lifetime opportunity, lifestyle, social misfits, ambition, hopes, teacher ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
tennessee, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down the pit or in a factory. But Jimmy has other ideas - he dreams of becoming a professional footballer. Confronted by a bitter and unsupportive ...
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, gloomy, sincere
Plot:
soccer, male bonding, football, friendship, male nudity, beer, women, family relations, heroes, hopes, society, self discovery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
northern england, yorkshire, europe, england
Similarity:
100%
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:
feel good, sentimental, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
soccer, athlete's life, working class, pow, human spirit, follow your dream, against the odds, hopes, contests and competitions, boy, football, society ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 50s, post world war two, 1950s
Place:
west germany, budapest, europe, germany, hungary ...
Similarity:
100%
267
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Set in the world of X-treme snowboarding "White Air" tells the story of Alex Crow, ('Riley Smith' ), a once-promising snowboarder who has lost his edge. To make ends meet he is working in Steve's local garage (Tom Sizemore) ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, exciting, captivating
Plot:
working class, friendship, skiing, against the odds, ambition, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, human spirit, lifestyle, rivalry, contests and competitions, midlife crisis ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Adapted from a 1979 stage play written by Chicago's Organic Theater Company, BLEACHER BUMS details the exploits of a group of baseball fans as they sit in the bleachers of Lakeview Park watching a game between the hometown Bruins take on the ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, talky ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, gambling, friends, rivalry, follow your dream, lifestyle, against the odds, buddies, ambition, couple relations, athlete's life, hopes ...
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An ex-boxer, living with the knowledge that his fight career was cut short by a crooked manager, channels his bitter disappointment in a single-minded quest for boxing championships for his three sons. We see them in pee-wee Silver Glove matches ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, tense
Plot:
boxing, athlete's life, human spirit, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, ego clash, tough heroes, obsession, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the third installment of the football drama trilogy Goal!, Kuno Becker returns as Mexican footballer Santiago Muñez, who, along with his best friends and England national team players Charlie Braithwaite (Leo Gregory) and Liam Adams (JJ Feild), ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
soccer, sport team, football player, soccer match, wedding ceremony, athlete's life, friends, contests and competitions, love and romance, lifestyle, buddies, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A professional coach has under his wing the team that is expected to qualify and play the FIFA U-17 World Cup. A fictionalized drama inspired by the story of Jesús Ramírez, the mexican coach.
Style:
inspirational, captivating, disturbing, motivational, dramatic ...
Plot:
teamwork, football, ambition, football team, soccer, rise and fall, sport team, determination, perseverance, aspiration, athlete's life, football player ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
100%
12K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Diana Guzman begins to train as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers, all while keeping it a secret from her father.
Style:
captivating, independent film, touching, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
boxing, female boxer, contests and competitions, kick-butt women, bullying, sexism, athlete's life, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, boxing trainer, female protagonist, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2000, 2000s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of professional football players Gale Sayes and Brian Piccolo, and how their friendship on and off the field was affected when Piccolo contracted a fatal disease
Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
american football, sport team, human spirit, ambition, athlete's life, friendship, life is a bitch, buddies, lifestyle, football, cancer, friendship between men ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jace Newfield has a problem. Besides being blind and being the new kid at school, his problem is that the kids at his new school thinks he's a jerk. Jace has to find a way to be accepted into his new school. Joining the wrestling team just ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
blindness, blind character, disability, sport team, high school, friendship, teenage life, follow your dream, teenage love, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, utah
Similarity:
100%
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