Movies like Soul of the Game
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Soul of the Game (1996)
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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 army record, Jackie Robinson, that gets tapped to be the first.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot:
baseball, african american, racial issues, blaxploitation, friendship, racism, interracial relations, historical figure, sport, friends, prodigy, human spirit, life is a bitch, athlete and trainer, follow your dream, injustice, rivalry, society, ambition, sport team, contests and competitions, strong female presence, terminal illness, americana, lifestyle ...
Place:
new york, usa, birmingham alabama
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Most similar movies to Soul of the Game
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's life, underdog, contests and competitions and rivalry mostly in Drama, Sport and Biography genres. Some movies like Soul of the Game: The Final Season (2007), Talent for the Game (1991), Kano (2014), Brian's Song (2001), Finding Buck McHenry (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
95%
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 ⇓
87%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.
Style:
uplifting, captivating, sincere, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
sport, baseball, against the odds, rivalry, athlete's life, ambition, sport team, hopes, society, contests and competitions, youth, power relations ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
japan, taiwan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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, uplifting, touching, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
american football, sport, sport team, athlete's life, human spirit, ambition, friendship, buddies, life is a bitch, lifestyle, friendship between men, cancer ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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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 ⇓
68%
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Movies like Remember the Titans
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 ⇓
66%
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 ⇓
65%
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 ⇓
65%
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 ⇓
62%
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. ...
Style:
serious, feel good, realistic, melancholic
Audience:
kids
Plot:
ship, athlete's life, human spirit, against the odds, follow your dream, unemployment, friendship, contests and competitions, rivalry, hopes, ambition, lifestyle ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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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
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 ⇓
58%
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 ⇓
57%
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:
21st century
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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 ⇓
54%
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 ⇓
53%
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Pele: Birth of a Legend similar movies
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, ambition, lifestyle, human spirit, follow your dream, tough heroes, ego clash, relationship vs career, rivalry, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Tired of the slave-like treatment of his team's owner, charismatic star Negro League pitcher Bingo Long takes to the road with his band of barnstormers through the small towns of the Midwest in the 1930's.
Style:
road movie, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
baseball, sport, blaxploitation, gangsters, athlete and trainer, ambition, human spirit, lifestyle, rivalry, underdog, follow your dream, athlete's life ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
51%
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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 ⇓
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.
Style:
sad, serious, realistic, uplifting, touching ...
Plot:
sport, american football, friendship, cancer, football, friendship between men, friends, racism, grief, brotherhood, happy ending, buddy ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1965
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach Al Collins(Forest Whitaker), gathers other players from hard-hit schools and builds a team actually ...
Style:
touching, emotional, uplifting, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, sport team, rivalry, high school, basketball coach, human spirit, athlete and trainer, starting over, contests and competitions, cheerleader, society, hopes ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The great Chicago White Sox team of 1919 is the saddest team to ever win a pennent. The team is bitter at their penny pincher owner, Charles Comiskey, and at their own teammates. Gamblers take advantage of this opportunity to offer some players $ to ...
Style:
realistic, factual, atmospheric, intense, talky ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
baseball, sport, gambling, friendship, major league, scandal, historical figure, sport team, contests and competitions, ambition, society, americana ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, 1920s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, boston, california, cincinnati ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 ⇓
47%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally loved, while the other, Maris, was universally hated. Both men started off with a bang, and both were nearing Babe Ruth's 60 home run record. ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, feel good, sincere ...
Plot:
sport, baseball, rivalry, friendship, fan, contests and competitions, fame, against the odds, success, lifestyle, athlete's life, rising to stardom ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1961, year 1998
Place:
usa, new york yankees, new york, north dakota, kansas city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
50 Cent stars as gifted college running back Deon in this touching drama. Deon's world turns upside down when an unexpected crisis jeopardizes his professional ambitions -- and causes him to look at himself and his life in a new way.
Style:
emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
american football, sport, terminal illness, athlete's life, human spirit, bittersweet, life is a bitch, hopes, ambition, sexual content, black, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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 ⇓
45%
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, humorous, semi serious, feel good, talky ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, friends, gambling, follow your dream, against the odds, lifestyle, rivalry, buddies, couple relations, sport, athlete's life, ambition ...
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 ⇓
44%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Italy, Romania
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The life of Primo Carnera a.k.a. "Ambling Alp", Italian professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from June 1933 to June 1934, but also accused by some of having ties to the mob.
Style:
uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
boxer, boxing, follow your dream, athlete's life, against the odds, ambition, prodigy, sport, contests and competitions, rise to the top, hopes, underdog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Based on the incredible true story, The Express follows the inspirational life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, factual, uplifting, serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
american football, sport, african american, racism, athlete and trainer, football, college, human spirit, friendship, mentor, courage, ambition ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 60s, 50s
Place:
usa, new york, texas, new jersey, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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