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The Games (1970)
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Four marathon runners (one from England, one from the U.S., a Czech and an Australian Aborigine) prepare to run in the Olympic games. The film follows each one and shows what their motivations are for running in the games.
Style:
rough, uplifting, serious, captivating, realistic
Plot:
running, track and field, sport, politics, friends, human spirit, destiny, athlete and trainer, love affair, bookies, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, culture clash, hopes, athlete's life, power relations, race, game, greek, olympics, man wearing towel, man wrapped in a towel
Time:
60s
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy, australia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, uplifting and captivating films with plots about ambition, sport, hopes, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, power relations and athlete's life mostly in Drama, Sport and Biography genres. Some movies like The Games: A Season on the Brink (2002), Fast Girls (2012), The Straight Line (2011), Monday Night Mayhem (2002), Downhill Racer (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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95%
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 ⇓
86%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Leila is released from prison after five years of confinement. She will meet Yannick, a young athlete who became blind after an accident. This last practice race despite his disability, but to run it must be connected by a wire to guide a person ...
Style:
uplifting, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot:
disability, athlete's life, human spirit, ambition, friendship, released from prison, contests and competitions, hopes, athlete and trainer, sport, love, running ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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 ⇓
71%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The true story of Olympic gold medalist Gail Devers (Charlayne Woodard) and her fight to combat Graves disease while becoming the fastest female sprinter in the world. From a setback in Seoul that nearly costs her the use of her feet to her ...
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting
Plot:
running, track and field, disability, power relations, radiation, ambition, unfulfillment, human spirit, athlete and trainer, hopes, athlete's life, sport ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
seoul, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An ambitious young skier, determined to break all existing records, is contemptuous of the teamwork advocated by the US coach when they go to Europe for the Olympics.
Style:
serious, realistic, stylized, rough, witty ...
Plot:
skiing, sport, winter, snow, winter olympics, olympics, teammate, narcissism, ambition, satire, power relations, sport team ...
Time:
60s
Place:
colorado, europe, oregon, switzerland, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
418
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
oxford, university, power relations, sport team, hopes, ambition, lifestyle, rivalry, sport, underdog, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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 ⇓
66%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: South Africa
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Marathon is a 90-k race in South Africa. An aging running coach, Barry, wants to field a winner; he's working with four men from a factory, but ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, sincere, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
runner, interracial relations, obsession, ambition, human spirit, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, society, sport, running, track and field ...
Time:
90s
Place:
south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film's two main protagonists are Russia's best saber fencers. One of them has long been in the limelight, the other only recently made it into the national team and has been winning almost every tournament since. The two athletes begin ...
Style:
captivating, serious, uplifting, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
fencing, swordsman, athlete's life, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, rivalry, professional rivalry, sport, ambition, professional sports, rivals, hopes ...
Place:
moscow russia, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on the incredible true story of amateur cyclist Graeme Obree, who breaks the world one-hour record on a bike he made out of washing machine parts.
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, captivating, inspirational
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bicycle, sport, human spirit, cyclist, scot, underdog, race, ambition, lifestyle, hopes, contests and competitions, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Independent feature film based on the biography of a Brazilian judo with a great victory that went beyond the mats and medals.
Style:
uplifting, touching, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
ambition, love affair, rise to the top, dysfunctional family, athlete's life, love and romance, hopes, couple relations, couples, sport, parents and children, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
507
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An ex footballer embroiled in a scandal returns hometown clear his name and reignite an old flame.
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
athlete and trainer, sport, sport team, homecoming, against the odds, rivalry, human spirit, contests and competitions, ambition, hopes, small town, haunted by the past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Hungary
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Having suffered as a boy under a brutal Communist-era coach, champion Hungarian gymnast Miklos moves to Canada years later in search of a new start - only to find himself unwittingly perpetuating the very same cycle of abuse among his own pupils.
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
gymnastics, rivalry, athlete's life, self discovery, human spirit, haunted by the past, lifestyle, athlete and trainer, ambition, traumatic childhood, journey, childhood trauma ...
Time:
80s, 2000s
Place:
hungary, canada, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of Billy Mills the American Indian that came from obscurity, to win the 10,000 meter long distance foot race in the Tokyo Olympics.
Style:
inspirational, serious, realistic, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot:
running, track and field, runner, disney, native american, olympics, male objectification, athlete's life, rivalry, contests and competitions, ambition, hopes ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1964
Place:
kansas, south dakota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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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 ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Talent can only get you so far. For golfer Luke Chisholm, that turns out to be Utopia, Texas -- where he's left stranded after blowing his pro debut.
Style:
sincere, uplifting, captivating, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
golf, wise man, christian, human spirit, teaching the ways of the world, ambition, introspection, sport, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, hopes, athlete's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 ⇓
48%
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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 ⇓
47%
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 ⇓
47%
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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 ⇓
47%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
At the heart of this true story is Damien Oliver, a young jockey who loses his only brother in a tragic racing accident, hauntingly reflecting of the way their father died 27 years earlier. After suffering through a series of discouraging defeats, ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
horse, jockey, horse race, sport, athlete's life, rise to the top, rivalry, ambition, human spirit, death of father, lifestyle, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
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Place:
australia, melbourne australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 ⇓
46%
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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 ⇓
45%
891
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young, gifted soccer player who gets into trouble for a petty crime is brought to the attention of former Manchester United coach Matt Busby, who comes out of retirement to help the boy and his teammates.
Style:
realistic, uplifting, captivating, inspirational, serious ...
Plot:
sport, ambition, hopes, human spirit, follow your dream, rivalry, contests and competitions, sport team, orphan, athlete and trainer, coming of age, football player ...
Time:
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Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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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:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on the book White Circus by Ken Read, this is the story of the Canadian skiing legends that became the first North Americans to crack the Euro dominated World Cup Circuit in 1975
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, captivating
Plot:
skiing, ambition, rivalry, contests and competitions, underdog, olympics, ski, sport, religion, coach, canadian, sport competition ...
Time:
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Place:
canada, europe, alps
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43%
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
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42%
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 ⇓
42%
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 ⇓
42%
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