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The Long Shot (2004)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Annie Garret is a young woman who moves with her irresponsible husband Ross and their seven-year-old daughter Taylor from Colorado to a ranch in northern California where Ross abandons them after he fails to land a job. With no money and no friends, and Taylor and Annie's prized racehorse, Tolo, to look after, Annie lands a job at a ranch hand and stable person at a stud farm owned by the stern Mary Lou O'Brien who is hiding some person demons of her own. Despite Annie's own setbacks in life, she decides to find an outing by entering her horse in a high-stakes riding competition. But when her horse goes blind from a race illness, Annie must struggle with her hardships to put the impossible to the test.
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, sincere
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, equestrian, follow your dream, ambition, starting over, friendship, family relations, parents and children, single parent, hopes, animals, farm, rehabilitation, animal life, contests and competitions, mother daughter relationship, human animal relationship, poverty, blindness, girl horse relationship, friends, divorce, ranch, single mother, competition ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
colorado, usa, california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sentimental films with plots about family relations, hopes, parents and children, youth, horse, friendship and friends mostly in Drama, Family and Sport genres. Some movies like The Long Shot: Held Hostage (2009), A Fine Step (2014), Breaking Free (1995), Second Chances (1998), The Mighty Celt (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Michelle a single mother is kidnapped by three masked men and held hostage until she is forced to rob a bank which is the only option she has to saving her only child's life while they are both wired to explode.
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psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
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confined, heist, woman in danger, single parent, unlikely criminals, isolation, crime gone awry, bank, parents and children, kidnapping, child in peril, hostage ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A Fine Step is an uplifting family drama centering on Cal Masterson (Luke Perry, Beverly Hills 90210) an award winning horseman whose relationship with his beloved horse Fandango allows him to achieve multiple championship wins. However tragedy ...
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sentimental, sincere, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
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pre-teens, teens
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horse, contests and competitions, friendship, starting over, parents and children, athlete's life, ambition, farm, youth, family relations, rivalry, fall in love ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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64%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When troubled, cynical teen Rick chooses service at a camp for the blind over serving time at a correctional facility, he thinks he's found the easy way out. Instead, it's the way to a new life. Friendship. Step by step, as Rick helps a ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious
Plot:
horse, youth, family relations, animals, disability, animal abuse, horse riding, girl horse relationship, friends, ambition, hopes, contests and competitions ...
Time:
90s
Place:
london, europe, england
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A little girl's physical and emotional reawakening after an accident claims her father and her spirit.
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realistic, serious, uplifting, sentimental, touching ...
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family outing
Plot:
girl horse relationship, horse, youth, religion, father daughter relationship, friendship, disability, starting over, optimism, friends, hopes, dealing with death ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
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57%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Centred around greyhound racing in a Catholic community after the "Troubles" have ended but where their legacy remains strong. Donal is a 14-year old who works in a greyhound racing kennel owned by Good Joe. If Donal's favourite ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot:
dog, youth, against the odds, friendship, contests and competitions, hopes, family relations, coming of age, animal training, teenage boy, parents and children, boss and employee ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
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56%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Fifteen year old Megan Shephard and her parents will do anything to save their struggling farm. When they discover a wild stallion in a nearby forest they begin to wonder if this could be the answer to their prayers.
Style:
feel good, captivating, light, sincere, uplifting ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick
Plot:
horse, contests and competitions, family business, horse riding, social relations, family relations, human spirit, against the odds, farm, youth, ambition, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An alcoholic former horse-trainer perceives in a fifteen-year-old boy a unique gift of horsemanship and makes it possible for the boy to conceive his dream and pursue it.
Style:
realistic, serious, feel good, touching
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse trainer, self discovery, friendship, jockey, ambition, human spirit, against the odds, teenage life, rivalry, youth, underdog, follow your dream ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story is about a 12 year old girl who loses her mother in an automobile accident. Her father struggles with the loss of his wife and trying to raise his young daughter who believes her father is partly responsible for her mother's death. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, melancholic, sentimental, disturbing ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, ranch, family problems, farm, dysfunctional family, family life, countryside, dog, girl horse relationship, animals, youth, horse ranch ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
One night in a small town in North Carolina, fate brings together three lives: an entertainment lawyer returning home to his dying mother after years in escape of his past, a woman trying to reclaim her supposed love, and a boy with a penchant for ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
hopes, family relations, friendship, destiny, starting over, redemption, human nature, love and romance, parents and children, small town, chance, legal action ...
Place:
north carolina, usa, new york
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53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In a rundown apartment complex in San Francisco's Tenderloin, a septuagenarian seer is waiting for his final message. For decades the eccentric recluse has chronicled the phrases of the Wheel of Fortune and deciphered their hidden meaning - the ...
Style:
serious, emotional, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A teenage girl, trying to come to grips with the death of her mother in a horse-riding accident, nurtures the foal of her mother's horse.
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, serious
Audience:
pre-teens
Plot:
mischievous children, follow your dream, ambition, teenage life, against the odds, love and romance, hopes, youth, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, rehabilitation, teaching the ways of the world ...
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52%
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of rodeo trick-riders recruits a young girl to join them.
Style:
serious, sentimental, feel good, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, youth, rodeo, direction and purpose, self discovery, friendship, family relations, parents and children, hopes, search for father, cowgirl, girl ...
Time:
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Place:
texas, usa, oklahoma, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Two determined mothersÂ, one a teacher, look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children
Style:
touching, realistic, uplifting, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
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Plot:
education, teacher, fighting the system, school, human spirit, hopes, teachers and students, parents and children, youth, society, changing lives, social relations ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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realistic, serious, uplifting, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
alcohol abuse, starting over, support group, hopes, college, mysterious stranger, rise to the top, society, friendship, lifestyle change, alcoholic, changing lives ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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feel good, uplifting, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
horse, horse race, racehorse, against the odds, sport, rivalry, hopes, contests and competitions, ambition, animal training, fish out of water, winner ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After the death of her father, Natalie Travers (Melissa Gilbert) discovers he was married to a rodeo star before he married Natalie’s mother. Upset that her father kept part of his life a secret from her and bewildered over how a prominent judge ...
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realistic, serious, touching, sentimental
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young girl's special love for a horse helps them both.
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
horse, girl horse relationship, equestrian, teenage life, friendship, family relations, young at heart, friends, animal life, youth, horse actor, human animal relationship ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After her mother's death, New York City fashion designer Lisa Rayborn (Natasha Henstridge) returns to her hometown and family farm. Due to a weak economy, her brother Jim (Harry Hamlin) has converted the family business from a cattle farm into ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, sentimental, uplifting, serious ...
Plot:
racism, family relations, discrimination, injustice, social differences, parents and children, rich and poor, single parent, follow your dream, couple relations, racial discrimination, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, chicago illinois
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51%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Orphan Eddie Burton is not bad, but too many screw-ups land him repeatedly in jail, so his 8-year old son Will, simply abandoned by his 'mother', has nobody else then Eddie's granny. When he hears about a program for convicts working ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
horse, redemption, rehabilitation, rider horse relationship, prison, against the odds, human spirit, follow your dream, ambition, parents and children, hopes, contests and competitions ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The fast-paced city life of two sisters is turned upside down when they are sent to live in the country with their father after their mother is killed.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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touching, realistic, sincere, serious
Plot:
follow your dream, ambition, friendship, teenage life, society, family relations, hip hop, youth, hopes, music, lesbian, strong female presence ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.
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sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After a car accident that claimed his father and sister's lives and left his mother in a coma, a young man is sent to live with his reclusive aunt (Jane Seymour) on Sable Island, a world-renowned wild horse preserve.
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touching, serious, sincere, sentimental
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Enraged by the sale of the vaulting horse that she'd been promised as hers to ride, Gracieuse, a talented rider, dumps her job at a stable. She starts again from zero by accepting work as a groom at a dressage stud farm adjacent to her ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Audience:
family outing
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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50%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, stylized, sincere, realistic
Plot:
friendship, forceful separation, family relations, family problems, parents separation, best friends, hopes, on the run, starting over, youth, breakup, parents and children ...
Time:
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Place:
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50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The true story of a single mom who overcomes many of life's obstacles.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
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