Movies like Soul of the Game

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Soul of the Game (1996)
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Soul of the Game (1996)
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, black, hip hop, racial issues, black man, blaxploitation, friendship, racism, interracial relations, historical figure, 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 ...
Place: new york, usa, birmingham alabama
Keyword: sport, americana

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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, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, rivalry, sport team and power relations mostly in Drama, Sport and Biography genres. Some movies like Soul of the Game: Pride (2007), The Final Season (2007), Kano (2014), Talent for the Game (1991), Finding Buck McHenry (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Pride (2007)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In this uplifting film based on a true story, coach Jim Ellis (Terrence Howard) shocks the community and changes lives when, aided by a local janitor (Bernie Mac), he sets out to form Philadelphia's first black swim team. But the odds are ...
Style: inspirational, serious, uplifting, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: racism, swimming, life is a bitch, ambition, against the odds, teacher, african american, human spirit, athlete's life, rivalry, youth, black ...
Time: 70s, year 2007, 20th century, 60s
Place: philadelphia, africa, usa
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The Final Season (2007)
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, sincere, touching, sentimental, historical drama ...
Audience: kids
Plot: baseball, coach, sport team, small town, ambition, against the odds, rivalry, human spirit, athlete's life, youth, contests and competitions, hopes ...
Time: year 2007, 90s
Place: iowa, usa
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36%
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Kano (2014)
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: baseball, ambition, athlete's life, rivalry, against the odds, youth, hopes, contests and competitions, society, sport team, asian, power relations ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: japan, taiwan, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Talent for the Game (1991)
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, independent film
Plot: baseball, career, obsessive quest, underdog, follow your dream, lifestyle, athlete and trainer, redemption, ambition, prodigy, society, rivalry ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: washington state, idaho, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Finding Buck McHenry (2000)
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, feel good, sentimental, non-linear ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: coach, friendship, ambition, follow your dream, against the odds, sport team, human spirit, society, lifestyle, athlete's life, hopes, family life ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Brian's Song (2001)
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, emotional, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: american football, sport team, ambition, athlete's life, human spirit, friendship, lifestyle, life is a bitch, buddies, football, cancer, friendship between men ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Express (2008)
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, uplifting, emotional, factual, serious ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly
Plot: american football, african american, racism, athlete and trainer, football, college, human spirit, biopic, mentor, friendship, courage, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2008, 60s, 1950s
Place: usa, new york, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
From the Rough (2013)
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: golf, against the odds, human spirit, athlete's life, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, once in a lifetime opportunity, lifestyle, social misfits, hopes, ambition, teacher ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend (1991)
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: independent film, realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot: basketball, youth, faith, biopic, teenage love, high school, college, against the odds, teaching the ways of the world, power relations, sport team, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Undefeated (2003)
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, suspense
Plot: athlete's life, human spirit, lifestyle, against the odds, social differences, tough heroes, boxing, rise to the top, ambition, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Hurricane Season (2009)
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, serious, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, hurricane katrina, rivalry, high school, sport team, basketball coach, contests and competitions, starting over, athlete and trainer, human spirit, cheerleader, society ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
A Shot at Glory (2000)
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 ...
Audience: teens
Plot: soccer, follow your dream, athlete's life, human spirit, underdog, friendship, lifestyle, ambition, against the odds, football, sport team, society ...
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Streetballers (2009)
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, sincere, touching, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: basketball, ambition, lifestyle, family problems, youth, contests and competitions, life is a bitch, society, athlete's life, hopes, rivalry, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Madison (2001)
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, anamorphic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: ship, athlete's life, human spirit, follow your dream, against the odds, friendship, contests and competitions, rivalry, lifestyle, ambition, rising to stardom, hopes ...
Time: year 2001, 70s
Place: usa, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Sugar (2008)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Dominican Republic
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Sugar is a 2008 sports drama film directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. It follows the story of Miguel Santos, a. k. a. Sugar (Algenis Perez Soto), a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro de Macorís, struggling to make it to the big leagues and pull ...
Style: atmospheric, uplifting, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: baseball, immigrant, athlete, culture clash, follow your dream, rags to riches, fish out of water, american dream, ambition, against the odds, character study, rookie ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: iowa, africa, new york, puerto rico, kansas ...
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26%
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Eight Men Out (1988)
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, talky, intense ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: baseball, gambling, friendship, major league, scandal, historical figure, sport team, ambition, contests and competitions, society, hopes, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, year 1988, edwardian era, 1920s
Place: chicago, usa, cincinnati ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
All Things Fall Apart (2011)
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: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: american football, human spirit, terminal illness, athlete's life, bittersweet, ambition, life is a bitch, hopes, black, football, special needs, racing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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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 ⇓
25%
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The Junction Boys (2002)
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: serious, tense, realistic, sincere, captivating
Plot: american football, against the odds, hopes, teachers and students, discrimination, contests and competitions, college, university, athlete and trainer, human spirit, college life, hardcase students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, alabama, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Believe in Me (2006)
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, spiritual, inspirational
Audience: family outing
Plot: basketball, small town, underdog, ambition, contests and competitions, youth, prodigy, hopes, rivalry, against the odds, human spirit, dedicated educator ...
Time: 60s, year 2006
Place: oklahoma, usa
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24%
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Sunset Park (1996)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A white school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined black high school basketball team and turns them into a winning team.
Style: hood, humorous, grim, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: basketball, high school, hip hop, underdog, black, urban, african american, teacher, student athlete, hip hop culture, danger, blaxploitation ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Matchups (2003)
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, independent film
Plot: blindness, prodigy, against the odds, disability, human spirit, dedicated educator, ambition, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, society, rivalry, youth ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
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, black comedy, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot: baseball, blaxploitation, urban, black, african, power relations, sport team, athlete and trainer, underdog, contests and competitions, rivalry, follow your dream ...
Time: 1930s, year 1976
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Price of Glory (2000)
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, ego clash, tough heroes, athlete and trainer, obsession, rivalry, contests and competitions ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
A Season on the Brink (2002)
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, rivalry, athlete's life, sport team, lifestyle, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, underdog, hopes, athlete, power relations, college ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot: basketball, coming of age, blaxploitation, black, urban, african american, american culture, african, black history, racial issues, murder, racism ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Boycott (2001)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, political, talky
Plot: civil rights movement, racism, interracial relations, civil rights, racial prejudice, protest, social activism, fighting the system, human spirit, social differences, discrimination, injustice ...
Time: 50s
Place: america, alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Mighty Macs (2009)
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, sincere, emotional, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: basketball, college, mother superior, catholic school, catholic, human spirit, against the odds, hopes, ambition, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, coach ...
Time: 70s, year 2009, 20th century
Place: philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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61* (2001)
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, sincere, feel good ...
Plot: baseball, friendship, rivalry, fan, contests and competitions, against the odds, fame, uninhibited rivalry, rising to stardom, ambition, lifestyle, underdog ...
Time: year 1961, 20th century, 60s, year 1998
Place: usa, north dakota, new york, baltimore, kansas city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story of a New York pro baseball team and two of its players. Henry Wiggen is the star pitcher and Bruce Pearson is the normal, everyday catcher who is far from the star player on the team and friend to all of his teammates. During the ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, inspirational, melancholic ...
Plot: baseball, friendship, terminal illness, teammate, baseball player, character study, adaptation, mentor, human spirit, ambition, athlete's life, male bonding ...
Time: 20th century, year 1973, 70s
Place: new york, minnesota, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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