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The Straight Line (2011)
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Original name: La Ligne droite
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 called. It offers Leila to be his guide. Through this project, they will learn to rebuild.
Style:
sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, uplifting
Plot:
disability, athlete's life, released from prison, friendship, human spirit, ambition, blind character, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, hopes, love, competition, blind man, blindness, black, friends, misfit, strong female presence, power relations, female nudity, handicapped, beach, boat, sport competition, flashback ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Most similar movies to The Straight Line
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films with plots about ambition, hopes, power relations, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, rivalry and human spirit mostly in Drama, Sport and Family genres. Some movies like The Straight Line: Fast Girls (2012), Dans les cordes (2007), All Things Fall Apart (2011), The Finishers (2013), Undefeated (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
feel good, exciting, touching, uplifting, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing, teens
Plot:
running, follow your dream, contests and competitions, sport team, society, lifestyle, friendship, social differences, rivalry, ego clash, athlete's life, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Story about two 18-year-old girls, Angie and Sandra, who want to dedicate themselves to women's professional boxing.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, suspense
Plot:
female boxer, family relations, friendship, athlete's life, ambition, athlete and trainer, parents and children, hopes, contests and competitions, lifestyle, family life, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
50 Cent stars as gifted college running back Deon in this touching drama. Deon's world turns upside down when an unexpected crisis jeopardizes his professional ambitions -- and causes him to look at himself and his life in a new way.
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
american football, terminal illness, athlete's life, human spirit, bittersweet, life is a bitch, hopes, ambition, black, football, racing, special needs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Julien, 17, is wheelchair-bound due to cerebral palsy. Despite their love for him, his family is gradually falling apart under the strain of dealing with his disability. In a bid to bond with his father, Julien challenges him to participate with him ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, uplifting
Plot:
disability, family relations, contests and competitions, human spirit, redemption, youth, hopes, teenage life, parents and children, father son relationship, mountain, cycling ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
france, nice france, alps
Similarity:
100%
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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:
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:
32%
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, human spirit, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, ego clash, tough heroes, obsession, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jace Newfield has a problem. Besides being blind and being the new kid at school, his problem is that the kids at his new school thinks he's a jerk. Jace has to find a way to be accepted into his new school. Joining the wrestling team just ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
blindness, blind character, disability, sport team, high school, friendship, teenage life, follow your dream, teenage love, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, utah
Similarity:
27%
408
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, exciting, realistic, emotional
Plot:
baseball, mute or deaf, contests and competitions, social relations, power relations, hopes, human spirit, athlete and trainer, misfit, youth, against the odds, competition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, korea
Similarity:
27%
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535
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:
serious, realistic, uplifting, captivating, rough
Plot:
running, olympics, track and field, contests and competitions, politics, human spirit, athlete's life, ambition, rivalry, athlete and trainer, hopes, culture clash ...
Time:
60s
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy, australia
Similarity:
27%
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 ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental
Plot:
horse, equestrian, ambition, starting over, follow your dream, workplace, contests and competitions, hopes, animal training, boss and employee, athlete and trainer, foot fetish ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
26%
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:
25%
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:
basketball, college, mother superior, catholic, human spirit, against the odds, catholic school, hopes, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, ambition, campus ...
Time:
70s, year 2009, 20th century
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
24%
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:
24%
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:
independent film, serious, realistic, uplifting
Plot:
running, olympics, track and field, radiation, power relations, disability, unfulfillment, athlete's life, human spirit, hopes, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
barcelona, seoul
Similarity:
23%
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, feel good, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
runner, obsession, interracial relations, human spirit, ambition, female athlete, society, contests and competitions, rivalry, athlete and trainer, track and field, marathon ...
Time:
90s
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
23%
464
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:
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:
80s, 90s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of professional football players Gale Sayes and Brian Piccolo, and how their friendship on and off the field was affected when Piccolo contracted a fatal disease
Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
american football, sport team, human spirit, ambition, athlete's life, friendship, life is a bitch, buddies, lifestyle, football, cancer, friendship between men ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
23%
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:
23%
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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:
23%
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:
23%
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:
22%
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:
22%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Alex, blind since the age of two, dreams of running for his school's cross-country team. His father, a probation officer, finds a running partner who spends his time 'running' from the law.
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, family outing
Plot:
blindness, blind boy, asthma, blind man, disability, hopes, against the odds, friendship, blind character, unlikely partners, ambition, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
22%
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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:
22%
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:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mitri is 15 years old and lives in a village in Senegal. Like all the youngsters of his age, he plays football, dreaming of the Barcelona and Chelsea Football Clubs. When an agent sees him, Mitri believes in his luck. But, in order to go chasing ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious
Plot:
football, follow your dream, immigrant, hopes, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, life is a bitch, youth, ambition, soccer, desire for fame, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, africa, europe, paris france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A high-school track star (Scott Jacoby) fools around with his buddy (Dennis Quaid), until a Vietnam War tragedy makes him grow up.
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
track and field, running, bittersweet, underdog, athlete and trainer, hopes, youth, coming of age, ambition, athlete's life, human nature, wartime life ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Budapest International Chess Tournament. The most likely winner: Cal Fournier (22), French champion, immature genius, socially awkward, compulsive player. But this time, an unusual 9-years-old Hungarian opponent disrupts this smooth-running routine.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, entertaining
Audience:
teens
Plot:
chess, genius, youth, competition, prodigy, ambition, misfit, rivalry, contests and competitions, coach, bet, sport competition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hungary, budapest
Similarity:
22%
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:
21%
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:
21%
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