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Kano (2014)
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Kano (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 185 min.
Story: A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.
Style: uplifting, sincere, captivating, sentimental, serious, realistic, banned
Plot: baseball, rivalry, ambition, against the odds, athlete's life, youth, society, sport team, contests and competitions, hopes, asian, friends, interracial relations, underdog, power relations, colonialism, biopic, athlete and trainer, baseball movie
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 30s
Place: japan, taiwan, china, asia
Keyword: sport, taiwanese, chinese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, uplifting and sentimental films with plots about ambition, hopes, rivalry, contests and competitions, athlete's life, power relations and underdog mostly in Drama, Sport and Biography genres. Some movies like Kano: M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016), The Great Victory (2014), Soul of the Game (1996), Montevideo, God Bless You! (2010), Maradona, the Hand of God (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 184 min.
Story: The film is based on the life of Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team, Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Style: uplifting, captivating, serious, realistic, patriotic ...
Plot: cricket, rags to riches, biopic, athlete's life, rise to the top, ambition, sport team, rivalry, contests and competitions, rising to stardom, patriot, meaning of life ...
Time: year 2011, 2000s, 21st century
Place: india
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100%
The Great Victory (2014)
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: captivating, touching, uplifting, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: love affair, rise to the top, ambition, couples, athlete's life, hopes, couple relations, dysfunctional family, love and romance, parents and children, biopic, judo ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Soul of the Game (1996)
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: touching, emotional, sincere, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: baseball, african american, black, blaxploitation, racial issues, black man, hip hop, friendship, racism, interracial relations, historical figure, injustice ...
Place: new york, usa, birmingham alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Montevideo, God Bless You! (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, History, Romance, Sport
Country: Serbia
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A story about one team that decides to follow a dream that takes them on a journey to the First World Football Championship in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930. A dream that allows them to become true stars and living legends.
Style: captivating, sentimental, sincere, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: soccer, follow your dream, football, ambition, rivalry, young lovers, love and romance, hopes, talented, coach, post war, fan ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: balkan, former yugoslavia, uruguay, serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Maradona, the Hand of God (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Italy, Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Dramatizing of the many shocking highs and lows of Argentine soccer hero Diego Maradona, an extraordinary athlete and arguably the greatest player in the history of the sport.
Style: realistic, uplifting, serious, sentimental, sincere
Plot: athlete's life, rise to the top, rise and fall, lifestyle, ambition, prodigy, rising to stardom, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, hopes, folk hero, rivalry ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century, 60s
Place: argentina, naples italy, napoli italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Carnera: The Walking Mountain (2008)
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, serious, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: boxer, boxing, follow your dream, ambition, against the odds, athlete's life, contests and competitions, hopes, prodigy, rise to the top, underdog, biopic ...
Time: 1930s, 21st century
Place: italy, new york, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 ⇓
27%
A Season on the Brink (2002)
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, rivalry, athlete's life, sport team, lifestyle, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, underdog, hopes, athlete, power relations, college ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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The Hammer (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A coming of age drama following the life of Matt Hamill, the first deaf wrestler to win a National Collegiate Wrestling Championship.
Style: uplifting, captivating, sincere, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: deaf, wrestler, mute or deaf, underdog, overcoming, athlete's life, human spirit, ambition, against the odds, rivalry, hopes, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Risen (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: As one of the rising talents of amateur boxing, Howard Winstone, a young Welsh boy from Merthyr Tydfil, was fast making a name for himself with his knock out right hand. A long professional fighting career surely beckoned? Then disaster strikes. An ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, captivating, serious
Plot: human spirit, athlete's life, ambition, against the odds, rise to the top, boxing, rivalry, hopes, disability, lifestyle, contests and competitions, blind ambition ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 50s
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
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Glove (2011)
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, human spirit, athlete and trainer, hopes, youth, misfit, against the odds, competition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Seve (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Despite being blocked at almost every turn in pursuit of the sport he loved, Seve Ballesteros fought against adversity to become the most spectacular and charismatic golfer to ever play the game.
Style: exciting, serious, sentimental, realistic, touching
Plot: golf, athlete's life, rise to the top, ambition, rivalry, contests and competitions, biopic
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Bert & Dickie (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Thrown together just five weeks before the final of the 1948 London Olympics, Bert Bushnell (Doctor Who's Matt Smith) and Dickie Burnell (Sam Hoare) defied all the odds and made history in the double sculls. This is the story of how they did it ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, exciting
Plot: competition, athlete's life, human spirit, against the odds, contests and competitions, rivalry, hopes, lifestyle, olympics, teamwork, motivation, partner ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1948
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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61* (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally loved, while the other, Maris, was universally hated. Both men started off with a bang, and both were nearing Babe Ruth's 60 home run record. ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, sincere, feel good ...
Plot: baseball, friendship, rivalry, fan, contests and competitions, against the odds, fame, uninhibited rivalry, rising to stardom, ambition, lifestyle, underdog ...
Time: year 1961, 20th century, 60s, year 1998
Place: usa, north dakota, new york, baltimore, kansas city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
A Shot at Glory (2000)
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, follow your dream, athlete's life, human spirit, underdog, friendship, lifestyle, ambition, against the odds, football, sport team, society ...
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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24%
Finding Buck McHenry (2000)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When an 11 year old boy gets cut from his Little League baseball team, he sets out to form his own team.
Style: humorous, touching, feel good, sentimental, non-linear ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: coach, friendship, ambition, follow your dream, against the odds, sport team, human spirit, society, lifestyle, athlete's life, hopes, family life ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Million Dollar Arm (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein (Jon Hamm) dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great pitcher from a pool of cricket players in India. He soon discovers two young men who can throw a ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, sentimental, touching, dramatic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: baseball, underdog, culture clash, biopic, cricket, rags to riches, athlete's life, fish out of water, against the odds, rivalry, contests and competitions, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Tiger Woods Story (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With his father coaching him and his mother providing a strong spiritual influence, Tiger Woods rose to fame and fortune. But his success came at a price, as he endured personal struggles with racism, self-doubt and cultural identity.
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, touching, sincere
Plot: golf, family relations, interracial relations, racism, profanity, biopic, prodigy, contests and competitions, athlete's life, society, lifestyle, hopes ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 ⇓
22%
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The Babe (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A chronicle of Babe Ruth's phenomenal story--from his hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage, to his meteoric rise to baseball superstardom and his poignant retirement from the game. His amazing career included seven American League ...
Style: scary, uplifting, touching, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: baseball, new york yankees, athlete, racing, al capone, historical figure, biopic, couples, human spirit, rising to stardom, ambition, underdog ...
Time: 1940s, year 1992, 1920s, 1910s, 1930s ...
Place: usa, bronx new york city, baltimore, new york
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22%
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 ⇓
22%
When the Game Stands Tall (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A young coach turns a losing high school football program around to go undefeated for 12 consecutive seasons.
Style: uplifting, captivating, exciting, serious, sincere ...
Audience: teens, family outing, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: american football, rise to the top, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, coach, ambition, small town, high school football, youth, football, sport team, christian ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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 ⇓
22%
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The Yankles (2009)
Genre: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: About Charlie Jones, a washed up, ex major league ballplayer, and how he gets a second chance at life and love by managing a Jewish, orthodox yeshiva baseball team.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, independent film ...
Plot: against the odds, culture clash, sport team, rabbi, ambition, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, rivalry, society, religions or cults, hopes, baseball ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Eight Men Out (1988)
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The great Chicago White Sox team of 1919 is the saddest team to ever win a pennent. The team is bitter at their penny pincher owner, Charles Comiskey, and at their own teammates. Gamblers take advantage of this opportunity to offer some players $ to ...
Style: realistic, factual, atmospheric, talky, intense ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: baseball, gambling, friendship, major league, scandal, historical figure, sport team, ambition, contests and competitions, society, hopes, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, year 1988, edwardian era, 1920s
Place: chicago, usa, cincinnati ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.2
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Crazy Canucks (2004)
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, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, underdog, olympics, ski, biopic, bare chested male, coach, religion, sport competition ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1974
Place: canada, europe, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Undefeated (2003)
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, suspense
Plot: athlete's life, human spirit, lifestyle, against the odds, social differences, tough heroes, boxing, rise to the top, ambition, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Champions (1984)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National
Style: sad, independent film, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: horse, horse race, biopic, racehorse, doctors and patients, horseman, equestrian, cancer, jockey, chemotherapy, family relations, power relations ...
Time: 80s, 70s, year 1981
Place: usa, kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.3
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Berlin '36 (2009)
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Berlin 36 is a 2009 German film telling the fate of Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was replaced by the Nazi regime by an athlete later discovered to be a man. The film is based on a true story and was released in ...
Style: uplifting, disturbing, serious, realistic, period drama
Plot: olympics, athlete's life, friendship, against the odds, racism, society, contests and competitions, politics, world war two, underdog, shoah, judaism ...
Time: 20th century, year 1936, 1930s
Place: germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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