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One on One (1977)
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Henry Steele is a basketball phenom at his small town high school, but when he matriculates to a big city university on a scholarship, soon realizes that he has few skills outside the sport. Expected by his coach to contribute significantly to the team, Henry is overwhelmed by the demands on his time, the "big business" aspect of college sports, and the fact that he never fully learned to read. Things look bleak for Henry when Janet Hays, a pretty graduate student, is assigned as Henry's tutor. Her intellect and strength lift Henry out of his doldrums just in time to battle the coach, who attempts to rescind Henry's scholarship.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sincere, melancholic, grindhouse
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, coach, youth, follow your dream, young lovers, ambition, university, athlete and trainer, rivalry, high school, contests and competitions, coming of age, college life, against the odds, teaching the ways of the world, student athlete, sexist, small town, college, cheerleader, bare chested male, college basketball, teenager, prodigy, student life ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles, colorado
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films with plots about ambition, rivalry, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, sport team, contests and competitions and underdog mostly in Sport, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like One on One: A Season on the Brink (2002), Blue Chips (1994), Fast Break (1979), Coach (1978), Street Dreams (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
basketball, athlete's life, rivalry, sport team, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, underdog, hopes, athlete, basketball coach, power relations ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, intense, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along some players, who are a bit odd but good. Like Swish who unknown to the rest of the team is a girl. ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, teenager, transsexual, student athlete, culture clash, college, stoner, disorder, power relations, sport team, rivalry, fugitives ...
Time:
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Place:
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100%
696
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An Olympic Gold medalist is hired to coach the boys basketball team. But when Coach Randy Rawlings arrives, the school's sexist principal discovers he hired a woman. Blocked from firing her due to discrimination laws, he tries to make sure the ...
Style:
grindhouse, sex comedy, independent film, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, sexism, female athlete, power of love, love, school, partner, power relations, sport team, social relations, dedicated educator, rivalry ...
Time:
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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:
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Place:
ohio, usa, florida
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100%
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
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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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: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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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%
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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, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
year 1975, 70s
Place:
africa
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:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The clock strikes midnight, money changes hands, the crowd is on their feet, and the court is alive with fast-paced razzle-dazzle basketball. These players don't play for a school or a pro team. They play for the street and it's ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspense
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
volleyball, high school, rivalry, teenage life, teenage love, athlete's life, lifestyle, youth, contests and competitions, underdog, high school sports, teenager ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
Friday Night Lights is an American drama television series based around a high school football team situated in Texas. The series takes place in the fictional town of Dillon: a small, close-knit community in rural Texas. Particular focus is given to ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, suspenseful, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, football, athlete and trainer, american football, sport team, cheerleader, friendship, contests and competitions, coach, small town, teenager, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
texas, hawaii, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
30%
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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, realistic, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, feel good, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
american football, high school, small town, teenage life, against the odds, leadership, human spirit, athlete's life, ambition, society, youth, hopes ...
Place:
alabama, usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, tense, captivating, realistic, sincere
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, alabama, texas
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, realistic, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, teens
Plot:
american football, cheerleader, high school football, high school, underdog, sport team, athlete and trainer, youth, follow your dream, rivalry, ambition, human spirit ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
27%
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, emotional, sincere, lighthearted ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, touching, feel good, serious, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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464
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, uplifting, captivating ...
Plot:
campus, athlete, oxford, university, power relations, sport team, athlete's life, rivalry, athlete and trainer, human spirit, ambition, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, touching, uplifting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa, louisiana
Similarity:
25%
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:
25%
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:
realistic, serious, sincere, suspense
Plot:
athlete's life, human spirit, lifestyle, social differences, against the odds, tough heroes, boxing, follow your dream, ambition, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, rivalry ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A native-American lacrosse team makes its way through a prep school league tournament.
Style:
feel good, exciting, uplifting, sincere, independent film ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
native american, lacrosse, hopes, high school, contests and competitions, ambition, rivalry, human spirit, social relations, against the odds, native, indians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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