Movies like Undefeated 2003
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Undefeated (2003)
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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 shop, which he now closes to turn professional boxer. His star rises fast, but success brings its own problems, as he he lacks experience to handle professionals and resist the abuse they and his ghetto past entourage make of his generous nature.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, suspense
Plot:
human spirit, athlete's life, social differences, lifestyle, against the odds, tough heroes, boxing, athlete and trainer, rise to the top, follow your dream, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, family business, underdog, fight, competition, feminism, society, strong female presence, hopes, urban ghetto life, power relations, urban ghetto, boxer ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Undefeated
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films with plots about ambition, athlete's life, rivalry, contests and competitions, hopes, athlete and trainer and underdog mostly in Drama, Sport and Action genres. Some movies like Undefeated: The Opponent (2000), Blue Chips (1994), The Prize Fighter (2003), The Junction Boys (2002), Matchups (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
sincere, serious, rough, independent 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, life is a bitch, rivalry, contests and competitions ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team aren't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete ...
Style:
suspense, intense, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
basketball, underdog, college, sport team, contests and competitions, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, prodigy, lifestyle, athlete's life, blind ambition, self discovery ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 80s
Place:
chicago, indiana, california, boston, texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After a life of hard knocks and wrong turns, boxer Ed Jones gets a second chance at fulfilling his life long dream of a World Boxing Championship. With the help of veteran promoter, Arliss King and the guidance of a former champ, Ed embarks on the ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, exciting, inspirational, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
boxing, athlete and trainer, rivalry, hopes, athlete's life, ambition, boxer, contests and competitions, championship, unfulfillment, self destructing, redemption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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, captivating, realistic, sincere
Plot:
american football, teachers and students, against the odds, hopes, discrimination, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, ambition, underdog, youth, tough heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, alabama, texas
Similarity:
100%
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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:
serious, realistic, touching, independent film
Plot:
blindness, prodigy, against the odds, disability, ambition, dedicated educator, human spirit, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, hopes, youth, athlete's life ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
boxing, athlete's life, contests and competitions, rivalry, brutality, blood, boxer, competition, fight, martial arts, violent content, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
touching, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
boxer, hopes, boxing, athlete's life, follow your dream, against the odds, ambition, rise to the top, contests and competitions, prodigy, underdog, biopic ...
Time:
1930s, 21st century
Place:
italy, new york, europe
Similarity:
100%
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, athlete's life, follow your dream, underdog, ambition, lifestyle, friendship, against the odds, football, sport team, athlete and trainer, society ...
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
Similarity:
100%
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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:
basketball, athlete's life, rivalry, sport team, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, underdog, hopes, athlete, basketball coach, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana
Similarity:
100%
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, independent film ...
Plot:
basketball, lifestyle, ambition, family problems, hopes, youth, life is a bitch, society, athlete's life, contests and competitions, rivalry, urban ghetto life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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, contests and competitions, rivalry, celebrity culture, athlete's life, hopes, showbiz, gambling, american football player ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, 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:
realistic, serious, tense, uplifting
Plot:
boxing, ambition, follow your dream, human spirit, athlete's life, family relations, athlete and trainer, rivalry, hopes, lifestyle, pregnancy, championship ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Diana Guzman begins to train as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers, all while keeping it a secret from her father.
Style:
captivating, independent film, touching, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
boxing, female boxer, contests and competitions, kick-butt women, bullying, sexism, athlete's life, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, boxing trainer, female protagonist, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2000, 2000s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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, tough heroes, ambition, human spirit, rivalry, athlete's life, against the odds, follow your dream, contests and competitions, lifestyle, relationship vs career ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Derrick Cabrera, like all skateboarders, dreams of being sponsored one day. He has all the talent in the world to make it happen but some major roadblocks to overcome before he can make the dream a reality.
Style:
captivating, exciting, disturbing, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
skateboard, rivalry, athlete's life, lifestyle, ambition, teenage life, social misfits, rise to the top, athlete and trainer, obsession, misfit, extreme sports ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ohio, usa, florida
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Thailand, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Christophe, a young horse racing jockey from Paris, is filled with hope and ambition. Yet after a race, he tests positive for illegal substances and is subsequently suspended from racing. He decides to move to Macau, in Asia. There his circumstances ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
rivalry, contests and competitions, rise to the top, dishonesty, power relations, lifestyle, gambling, ambition, society, chases and races, athlete and trainer, gangster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
100%
12K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A story of two teenagers trapped in the world of illegal underground boxing. One is fighting to save his fathers life and using the money pay off gambling debts accumulated by his father. The second is fighting for the money to get out of the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, harsh, hood ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
boxing, friendship, underdog, contests and competitions, hopes, athlete and trainer, urban ghetto life, against the odds, human spirit, bare chested male, unlikely friendships, boxer ...
Time:
90s, year 1992
Place:
chicago, cuba, british columbia, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
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, independent film ...
Plot:
golf, youth, ambition, prodigy, lifestyle, athlete's life, human spirit, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, social differences, teachers and students, underdog ...
Similarity:
100%
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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, spiritual
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
hopes, athlete and trainer, small town, youth, underdog, ambition, rivalry, contests and competitions, prodigy, against the odds, dedicated educator, human spirit ...
Time:
60s, year 2006
Place:
oklahoma, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 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, lifestyle, rising to stardom, hopes, contests and competitions, ambition, rivalry, unemployment ...
Time:
year 2001, 70s
Place:
usa, indiana, washington state, seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A young man struggles to become a boxing champ, but success blinds him. It is only through the love of his girlfriend that he is brought back to reality.
Style:
grindhouse, neo noir, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
boxing, boxer, black, power relations, love affair, rich and poor, rivalry, hopes, redemption, life is a bitch, love and romance, underdog ...
Time:
year 1981, 1940s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A cinematic portrait of the famous fight promoter and boxing manager.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic
Plot:
boxing, boxer, biopic, entrepreneur, gangster, urban ghetto, power relations, athlete and trainer, hopes, rise and fall, life is a bitch, rise to the top ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
africa
Similarity:
100%
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, touching, feel good, serious, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night, teens
Plot:
golf, against the odds, human spirit, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, follow your dream, once in a lifetime opportunity, lifestyle, social misfits, ambition, hopes, teacher ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
tennessee, usa
Similarity:
100%
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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, touching, sincere, historical drama ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
baseball, hopes, high school sports, coach, sport team, small town, ambition, against the odds, one last chance, youth, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2007, 90s
Place:
iowa, usa
Similarity:
100%
4K
Genre: Action, 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 ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, emotional
Plot:
boxing, family relations, athlete's life, ambition, follow your dream, rise to the top, hopes, once promising, rivalry, lifestyle, athlete and trainer, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
100%
200
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:
independent film, uplifting, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
boxing, boxer, youth, family relations, underdog, aging, supportive spouse, athlete and trainer, ambition, follow your dream, hopes, rise to the top ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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 ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
baseball, african american, racism, baseball coach, black, racial issues, blaxploitation, baseball player, black man, hip hop, interracial relations, friendship ...
Time:
1940s, year 1947
Place:
usa, new york, birmingham alabama
Similarity:
100%
612
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ben is a tormented young man who escapes abuse, his life in crime streets to spend, with the result that he was in prison ends. If Ben is released, he comes back as a boxer, with the help of his mentor, Joe, a bokstrainer. Have a new found love ...
Style:
realistic, uplifting, serious, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
boxing, rivalry, boxer, ambition, desire for fame, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, hopes, vengeance, contests and competitions, redemption ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Full-Court Miracle is a 2003 Disney Channel Original Movie. It premiered on November 23, 2003. Inspired by the true story of University of Virginia basketball star Lamont Carr, the film centers on a group of young Jewish basketball players who ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
basketball, athlete's life, against the odds, sport team, contests and competitions, underdog, follow your dream, rivalry, athlete and trainer, fish out of water, win over, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides that wrestling boys is the only way back to her estranged father.
Style:
realistic, touching, uplifting, serious, hood ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
human spirit, martial arts, coming of age, fight, black, teenager, perseverance, mentor, contests and competitions, rivalry, ambition, culture clash ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
100%
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