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Ours (2007)
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Ours (2007)
Original name: Apne
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 173 min.
Story: An ex-boxer Baldev Choudhary (Dharmendra) has had a stain in his boxing career. He wanted to wash it with his son Angad's (Sunny Deol) success, but times were hard and a financial crunch kept him from achieving this dream. Though Angad pulled through fine, Baldev never forgot who ruined his chance to wash the stain. An opportunity strikes Baldev in the form of a T.V. Show. He trains a local boy to get into this media hyped boxing show, but is ditched for a better coach at the last minute. Baldev's younger son Karan (Bobby Deol) has just launched his first music album. Realizing his father is in crises of his life, he gives up his dream of a musical career to get into the game of boxing.
Style: exciting, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot: boxing, sport, family relations, rise to the top, follow your dream, ambition, athlete's life, hopes, parents and children, athlete and trainer, rivalry, lifestyle, once promising, contests and competitions, disgraced, training, father son relationship, power relations, boxer, challenge, boxing match, real life father and son playing father and son, transplant, bollywood, hindi ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: india, punjab

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and captivating films with plots about sport, ambition, rivalry, hopes, athlete's life, contests and competitions and athlete and trainer mostly in Drama, Sport and Action genres. Some movies like Ours: Chak De! India (2007), Mary Kom (2014), Kai Po Che! (2013), Price of Glory (2000), The Kid (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Chak De! India (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story: A team of rag-tag girls with their own agenda form Team India competing for international fame in field hockey. Their coach, the ex-men's Indian National team captain, returns from a life of shame after being unjustly accused of match fixing in ...
Style: feel good, realistic, inspirational, sentimental, exciting ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: sport, coach, contests and competitions, underdog, rivalry, against the odds, sport team, determination, power relations, media coverage, bonding, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, australia, asia
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100%
 6.8
 11K
Mary Kom (2014)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A chronicle of the life of Indian boxer 'Mary Kom' who went through several hardships before audaciously accomplishing her ultimate dream.
Style: realistic, captivating, exciting, serious, motivational
Plot: female boxer, sport, boxing, training, contests and competitions, women, athlete's life, ambition, rivalry, hopes, follow your dream, determination ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 38K
Kai Po Che! (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Three friends growing up in India at the turn of the millennium set out to open a training academy to produce the country's next cricket stars.
Style: inspirational, realistic, emotional, serious, captivating ...
Plot: cricket the game, friendship, follow your dream, success, business venture, sport team, talented, hopes, athlete and trainer, ambition, business, politics ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 885
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, tough heroes, ego clash, relationship vs career, rivalry, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 5.8
 188
The Kid (1997)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jimmy Albright is a young athlete with a passion for boxing. His mentor, Harry Sloan, an aging trainer and former boxer, sees Jimmy's potential, not only as a boxer but as a young man. With Harry's guidance, Jimmy trains and fights his way ...
Style: uplifting, serious, psychological, realistic, touching ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: boxing, youth, family relations, human spirit, athlete's life, lifestyle, hopes, rise to the top, underdog, aging, athlete and trainer, supportive spouse ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.3
 790
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
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 ⇓
49%
Dans les cordes (2007)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Style: realistic, serious, touching
Plot: female boxer, rivalry, family relations, ambition, athlete's life, friendship, parents and children, teenage life, lifestyle, family life, sport, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Gloves of Stone (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Abner is trapped in the rough life of Mexico City. His escape? Boxing. Dr. Frank Irwin (Martin Sheen) and his son Jimmy, a pro boxer, come together to teach Abner that the heart fuels the punches we throw in life.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, sincere, bilingual
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxing, jail, athlete's life, rise to the top, ambition, parents and children, once promising, family relations, family problems, lifestyle, athlete and trainer, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Aryan: Unbreakable (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Aryan is the college champion in boxing. He is training under Ranveer Singh in order to achieve his dream: winning the national championship. His girlfriend Neha supports him unconditionally and he relies heavily upon her. However, after his life ...
Style: serious, realistic, uplifting, tense
Plot: ambition, follow your dream, human spirit, athlete's life, rivalry, hopes, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, family relations, pregnancy, championship, boxing ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 8.1
 17K
Iqbal (2005)
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, uplifting, captivating, semi serious, inspirational ...
Plot: cricket the game, sport, prodigy, follow your dream, ambition, human spirit, lifestyle, against the odds, hopes, rise to the top, athlete's life, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.4
 249
The Opponent (2000)
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 ⇓
44%
Carnera: The Walking Mountain (2008)
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%
 4.8
 783
Counterpunch (2019)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Based on a true story. A young boxer, Emilio, from the wrong side of the tracks with big dreams of winning the Golden Gloves boxing championship, finds himself at a cross roads after being locked up. As he fights his way back into the winning circle ...
Style: serious, rough, emotional, realistic, tense
Plot: rivalry, ambition, athlete's life, one more chance, starting over, contests and competitions, follow your dream, sport, lifestyle, hopes, power relations, martial arts ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Split Decisions (1988)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a boxer is killed because he wouldn't take a dive, his brother tries to find a way to avenge him even if only symbolically.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, sincere
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxing, boxer, fight, martial arts, ambition, conflict, hopes, sport, rivalry, lifestyle, vengeance, gangsters ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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: 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 ⇓
42%
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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
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 ⇓
40%
Carman: The Champion (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Former champion boxer Orlando Leone (Carmen) is "The Preacher" at an inner-city youth center. Wanting to give something back to the community, he bought a large building for a church youth center. But the cash ran out before he could ...
Style: serious, realistic, christian film, sincere
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxing, christian, ambition, human spirit, rivalry, athlete's life, tough heroes, against the odds, lifestyle, contests and competitions, follow your dream, relationship vs career ...
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
A Fighting Man (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two men meet in the ring for a fight that will change their lives.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, sincere, touching ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxing, sport, athlete's life, human spirit, ambition, contests and competitions, rivalry, suspense, brutality, fight, martial arts, competition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 184 min.
Story: The film is based on the life of Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team, Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Style: uplifting, captivating, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: sport, cricket the game, rags to riches, rise to the top, athlete's life, ambition, sport team, contests and competitions, leadership, rising to stardom, rivalry, isolation ...
Time: 2000s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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, 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 ⇓
39%
 7.3
 13K
Jersey (2022)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story: An ex-cricketer struggling to make ends meet, wants to fulfill his child's wish of getting an Indian jersey but in the process comes face to face with his heroic past and is forced to decide if he will rise to the occasion and become a symbol ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: cricket the game, sport, father son relationship, dream, life is a bitch, social problems, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, family relations, parents and children, ex athlete, hindi ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Miracle of Bern (2003)
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: exciting, sentimental, feel good, realistic, serious
Plot: soccer, sport, working class, pow, human spirit, follow your dream, athlete's life, against the odds, contests and competitions, rivalry, ambition, society ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: budapest, europe, west germany, germany, hungary ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.8
 360
Glove (2011)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Kim Sang-nam (Jeong Jae-yeong), a hot-tempered former professional baseball player, is sent to the countryside to coach a team of hearing-impaired players in order to avoid media coverage of his recent involvement in an assault case. At first, Kim ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, emotional
Plot: mute or deaf, baseball, sport, contests and competitions, misfit, youth, human spirit, hopes, athlete and trainer, power relations, social relations, against the odds ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Shadow Boxing 3. The Final Round (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Champion boxer Artyom Kolchin climbed all conceivable heights and became a national hero. He does not enter the boxing ring any more, rather choosing a coaching job and wild high life, including continuous TV appearances, hanging out and love ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting, serious
Plot: boxing, athlete's life, ambition, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, rivalry, power relations, uncover truth, graphic violence, sport, car chase, boxer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
A Gentleman's Game (2002)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A drama revolving around characters whose lives are transformed one summer at an exclusive East Coast country club.
Style: serious, sentimental, sincere, scenic, realistic
Plot: golf, youth, ambition, prodigy, athlete's life, lifestyle, human spirit, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, teachers and students, social differences, single parent ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Monday Night Mayhem (2002)
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, athlete's life, hopes, showbiz, contests and competitions, sport, rivalry, celebrity culture, television ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.5
 814
Phantom Punch (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: From his discovery by a priest while serving time at the Missouri State Penitentiary to the infamous 'Phantom Punch' by Cassius Clay which effectively ended his career, the movie spans the years from 1950 to Liston's mysterious and ...
Style: realistic, captivating, rough, serious, sincere ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxing, prison, infidelity, black american, boxer, sport, rise and fall, prison life, racism, discrimination, rivalry, downfall ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 50s, 70s
Place: usa, missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.6
 17K
Hands of Stone (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Panama, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Style: captivating, realistic, exciting, tense, inspirational ...
Plot: boxing, sport, boxing match, boxer, sex scene, rivalry, fight, rags to riches, athlete's life, contests and competitions, ambition, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s, 60s, year 1980
Place: panama
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A Biographical story of Dale Earnhardt, Sr. The movie starts with his young life and growing up with his father, Ralph, who raced for a living, but initially wanted more for his son. When Dale quits high school to start driving full time, his ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, sentimental
Plot: lifestyle, human spirit, ambition, rising to stardom, rivalry, family relations, hopes, sport, contests and competitions, family life, parents and children, auto racing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.1
 11K
Forever Strong (2008)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Rick Penning lives life just like he plays rugby; fast, hard-hitting and intense. When life on the edge lands him in jail, prison ward Marcus Tate offers him a chance to get back in the game by playing for his rival, Highland Rugby. Reluctantly Rick ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, disturbing, rough ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: rugby, coach, dedicated educator, juvenile delinquency, sport, father son relationship, human spirit, ambition, redemption, starting over, teenage life, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%