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The White Shadow (1978)
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The White Shadow (1978)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The White Shadow is an American drama television series that ran on the CBS network from November 27 1978, to March 16 1981.
Style: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot: high school, basketball, teachers and students, education, sport competition, black, youth, domestic violence, athlete and trainer, interracial relations, rebellion, high school life, society, ambition, latinos, against the odds, dedicated educator, hardcase students, teaching the ways of the world, power relations, teenager, school, baseball, coach, ex athlete
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
Keyword: sport

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Most similar movies to The White Shadow

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films and TV series with plots about power relations, youth, hopes, ambition, high school, society and rivalry mostly in Drama, Sport and Family genres. Some movies like The White Shadow: Friday Night Lights (2006), Ruby Bridges (1998), Sunset Park (1996), Believe in Me (2006), One on One (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Friday Night Lights (2006)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
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, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, football, athlete and trainer, american football, coach, sport team, friendship, contests and competitions, cheerleader, small town, teenage boy, teenager ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas, hawaii, southern usa, usa
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Ruby Bridges (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of Ruby Bridges, an African-American girl who, in 1960 at age 6, helped to integrate the all-white schools of New Orleans. Although she was the only black girl to come to the school she was sent to, (and since all the white mothers ...
Style: uplifting, inspirational, political, contemplative, serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: racism, civil rights, african american, black, blaxploitation, art, american culture, education, black history, school, interracial relations, injustice ...
Time: 60s
Place: america, louisiana, new orleans, usa
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100%
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Sunset Park (1996)
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, grim, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: basketball, high school, hip hop, underdog, black, urban, african american, teacher, student athlete, hip hop culture, danger, blaxploitation ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Believe in Me (2006)
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, spiritual, inspirational
Audience: family outing
Plot: basketball, small town, underdog, ambition, contests and competitions, youth, prodigy, hopes, rivalry, against the odds, human spirit, dedicated educator ...
Time: 60s, year 2006
Place: oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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One on One (1977)
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 ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, melancholic, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, college, coach, young lovers, follow your dream, ambition, youth, contests and competitions, coming of age, athlete and trainer, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
To Sir, with Love II (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Mark Thackeray (Poitier) is a West Indian, who in the 1967 film had taken teaching in a London East End school. He spent twenty years teaching and ten in administrative roles. He has taught the children of his former pupils, but is now retiring.
Style: political, realistic, serious, uplifting, touching ...
Plot: teacher, education, black, juvenile delinquency, african american, high school, idealism, hopes, society, youth, hardcase students, dedicated educator ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, usa
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30%
Higher Ground (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Higher Ground is an American-Canadian drama action television show shot outside Vancouver, British Columbia. The series ran from January 14, 2000 - June 16, 2000 and aired on Fox Family. It stars Joe Lando, Hayden Christensen, A.J. Cook, Meghan Ory, ...
Style: sincere, serious, emotional, touching, existential ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: juvenile delinquency, troubled teen, hardcase students, dedicated educator, rebellion, boarding school, social problems, teenage life, social misfits, understanding, youth, troublemaker ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Hometown Legend (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A teenage drifter finds an opportunity to turn his life around when he joins a high-school football program with a hard-nosed coach.
Style: realistic, serious, feel good, touching, independent film ...
Plot: american football, high school, small town, human spirit, leadership, athlete's life, teenage life, against the odds, ambition, society, rivalry, youth ...
Place: alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend (1991)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A story about the great basketball player "Pistol" Pete Maravich when he was in the eighth grade. He plays on the varsity basketball team at Daniel High School but has some very difficult obstacles standing in his way of playing. The only ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot: basketball, youth, faith, biopic, teenage love, high school, college, against the odds, teaching the ways of the world, power relations, sport team, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Final Season (2007)
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, sincere, touching, sentimental, historical drama ...
Audience: kids
Plot: baseball, coach, sport team, small town, ambition, against the odds, rivalry, human spirit, athlete's life, youth, contests and competitions, hopes ...
Time: year 2007, 90s
Place: iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Cheaters (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, clever, offbeat
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: teachers and students, high school, ambition, lifestyle, teenage life, social differences, rivalry, dedicated educator, youth, contests and competitions, society, fraud ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Bronx Is Burning (2007)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Bronx Is Burning is a television drama that debuted on ESPN on July 9, 2007, after the 2007 MLB Home Run Derby. It is an eight-episode mini-series adapted from Jonathan Mahler's best-selling book, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx Is Burning. ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, humorous, clever ...
Plot: major league, self involved, athlete and trainer, rising to stardom, contests and competitions, ambition, athlete's life, coach, manager, championship, campaign, sport team ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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, inspirational, motivational, disturbing ...
Audience: manly, family outing
Plot: rugby, coach, dedicated educator, juvenile delinquency, athlete and trainer, father son relationship, human spirit, redemption, ambition, starting over, teenage life, motivation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Coach Carter (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.
Style: inspirational, motivational, touching, hood, feel good ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: basketball, teacher, high school, mentor, teachers and students, underdog, athlete and trainer, life philosophy, athlete's life, human spirit, dedicated educator, sport team ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, new jersey, usa, san francisco, sacramento california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Hurricane Season (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach Al Collins(Forest Whitaker), gathers other players from hard-hit schools and builds a team actually ...
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, hurricane katrina, rivalry, high school, sport team, basketball coach, contests and competitions, starting over, athlete and trainer, human spirit, cheerleader, society ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Mighty Macs (2009)
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, sincere, emotional, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: basketball, college, mother superior, catholic school, catholic, human spirit, against the odds, hopes, ambition, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, coach ...
Time: 70s, year 2009, 20th century
Place: philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Junction Boys (2002)
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, realistic, sincere, captivating
Plot: american football, against the odds, hopes, teachers and students, discrimination, contests and competitions, college, university, athlete and trainer, human spirit, college life, hardcase students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, alabama, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
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, sincere ...
Plot: basketball, coming of age, blaxploitation, black, urban, african american, american culture, african, black history, racial issues, murder, racism ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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From the Rough (2013)
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: golf, against the odds, human spirit, athlete's life, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, once in a lifetime opportunity, lifestyle, social misfits, hopes, ambition, teacher ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Crash (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Crash is an American television drama series that tells the story of how the lives of how several very diverse Southern Californians intersect.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, medical drama ...
Plot: racism, social decay, police detective, injustice, family problems, society, law enforcement, life is a bitch, partner, dishonesty, immigrant, interracial relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Life of a King (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Life of a King is the true story of one man's mission to give inner city kids of Washington DC something he never had - a future. After being incarcerated for eighteen years, Eugene Brown established the Big Chair Chess Club to get kids off the ...
Style: sincere, uplifting, rough, touching, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: chess, dedicated educator, hardcase students, changing lives, ambition, teenage life, ex convict, contests and competitions, bad attitude, society, gain trust, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Halls of Anger (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.
Style: black and white, independent film, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot: cheerleader, blaxploitation, juvenile delinquent, racial issues, black, high school, hardcase students, life is a bitch, social misfits, ambition, society, youth ...
Time: 60s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Pride (2007)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In this uplifting film based on a true story, coach Jim Ellis (Terrence Howard) shocks the community and changes lives when, aided by a local janitor (Bernie Mac), he sets out to form Philadelphia's first black swim team. But the odds are ...
Style: inspirational, serious, uplifting, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: racism, swimming, life is a bitch, ambition, against the odds, teacher, african american, human spirit, athlete's life, rivalry, youth, black ...
Time: 70s, year 2007, 20th century, 60s
Place: philadelphia, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Crooked Arrows (2012)
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, independent film ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: native american, lacrosse, high school, hopes, ambition, contests and competitions, human spirit, rivalry, social relations, against the odds, native, preparatory school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: massachusetts, boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Talent for the Game (1991)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Major League Baseball scout must find promising young player to save his job and his team.
Style: realistic, serious, feel good, independent film
Plot: baseball, career, obsessive quest, underdog, follow your dream, lifestyle, athlete and trainer, redemption, ambition, prodigy, society, rivalry ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: washington state, idaho, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Invisible Eye (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Spying on her students, a teacher finds an exciting hobby.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: high school life, political unrest, society, youth, rebellion, workplace, teachers and students, against the rules, social relations, workplace situations, responsibility, state affairs ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: latin america, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Paper Chase (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Critically lauded drama about the life and pressures of a group of students at a prestigious Eastern law school, with a strict and domineering contract-law professor named Charles Kingsfield, who alternately inspires and terrifies the students.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, talky, witty ...
Plot: education, lawyer, law, court, school, law school, college, youth, legal, coming of age, ambition, power relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Investigator (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A veteran police detective becomes a criminal justice teacher and baseball coach at a local high school, leading him to the most important investigation of his life. Inspired by true events.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, christian film, contemplative ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: high school, self discovery, career change, investigation, law enforcement, youth, social relations, teachers and students, teacher, faith, christian, baseball ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Streetballers (2009)
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, sincere, touching, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: basketball, ambition, lifestyle, family problems, youth, contests and competitions, life is a bitch, society, athlete's life, hopes, rivalry, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Matchups (2003)
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: realistic, serious, touching, independent film
Plot: blindness, prodigy, against the odds, disability, human spirit, dedicated educator, ambition, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, society, rivalry, youth ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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