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Chak De! India (2007)
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Chak De! India (2007)
Original name: चकदे! इंडिया
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: India, USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 153 min.
Story: A team of rag-tag girls with their own agenda form Team India competing for international fame in field hockey. Their coach, the ex-men's Indian National team captain, returns from a life of shame after being unjustly accused of match fixing in his last match. Can he give the girls the motivation required to win, while dealing with the shadows of his own past?
Style: feel good, realistic, inspirational, patriotic, exciting, sentimental, touching, uplifting, entertaining, sad ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: underdog, coach, contests and competitions, rivalry, sport team, determination, against the odds, patriotism, ambition, glory, media coverage, bonding, hopes, power relations, patriot, sexism, hockey, indians, women, motivation, feminist, hindu, teacher, politics, muslim ...
Time: year 2007, y2k, 21st century, contemporary
Place: india, middle east, australia, asia
Keyword: sport, dutch, life lessons

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, feel good, serious and uplifting films with plots about hopes, ambition, rivalry, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, power relations and human spirit mostly in Drama, Sport and Family genres. Some movies like Chak De! India: Ours (2007), M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016), Iqbal (2005), Swades (2004), Fast Girls (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ours (2007)
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
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Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: india
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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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Iqbal (2005)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story: This is all about chasing your dreams, no matter what the obstacles. The story involves a young deaf and dumb boy who is crazy about cricket.
Style: realistic, uplifting, inspirational, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: cricket, disability, ambition, human spirit, lifestyle, prodigy, follow your dream, against the odds, struggle, hopes, rise to the top, obsession ...
Time: y2k, 21st century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Swades (2004)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: India, USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story: Set in modern day India, Swades is a film that tackles the issues that development throws up on a grass root level. It is to this India, which is colorful, heterogeneous and complex that Mohan Bhargava (Shah Rukh Khan), a bright young scientist ...
Style: touching, sincere, patriotic, inspirational, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: poverty, discrimination, village, immigrant, self discovery, obsessive quest, follow your dream, human spirit, homecoming, journey, social differences, change of heart ...
Time: year 2004, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: india, middle east, asia
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Fast Girls (2012)
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: uplifting, feel good, exciting, touching, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, teens
Plot: running, follow your dream, contests and competitions, society, sport team, lifestyle, friendship, athlete's life, ego clash, social differences, rivalry, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Long Run (2001)
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, touching, feel good, sincere ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: runner, interracial relations, obsession, running, ambition, human spirit, rivalry, contests and competitions, society, athlete and trainer, track and field, female athlete ...
Time: 90s
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The Karate Kid (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA, China
Duration: 140 min.
Story: 12-year-old Dre Parker could have been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying but the cultural differences make such a friendship ...
Style: inspirational, uplifting, feel good, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, family friendly, chick flick ...
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Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
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Run Milkha Run (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 186 min.
Story: The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.
Style: inspirational, realistic, cult classic, meditative, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: rise to the top, olympics, biopic, running, life, athlete's life, indians, lifestyle, rising to stardom, follow your dream, ambition, contests and competitions ...
Time: year 2013, 60s, 20th century, 50s, year 1947 ...
Place: india, middle east, asia, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Finding Buck McHenry (2000)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: humorous, touching, feel good, sentimental, non-linear ...
Audience: family outing
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
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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
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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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 ⇓
33%
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 ⇓
32%
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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
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Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the horse (in fact is a mare)and save it of being sacrificed by the owner.
Style: inspirational, touching, sentimental, feel good, serious ...
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Place: kentucky, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
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Time: 90s, 20th century
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Believe (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young, gifted soccer player who gets into trouble for a petty crime is brought to the attention of former Manchester United coach Matt Busby, who comes out of retirement to help the boy and his teammates.
Style: realistic, uplifting, captivating, inspirational, serious ...
Plot: boy, sport team, contests and competitions, hopes, follow your dream, rivalry, human spirit, ambition, orphan, athlete and trainer, coming of age, football ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1984
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Full-Court Miracle (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 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: realistic, semi serious, humorous
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
Style: sentimental, inspirational, touching, compassionate, sincere ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, family outing, adult
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Time: 70s, 20th century, year 2006
Place: usa, west virginia, virginia, california
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
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Style: feel good, realistic, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, teens
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Time: 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Three friends growing up in India at the turn of the millennium set out to open a training academy to produce the country's next cricket stars.
Style: inspirational, emotional, realistic, serious, captivating ...
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
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Style: inspirational, intense, talky, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
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Place: california, usa, san francisco, los angeles
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31%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
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Style: inspirational, touching, sentimental, christian film, feel good ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
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Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa
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31%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
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Style: inspirational, sentimental, exciting, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, family friendly, family outing, adult
Plot: underdog, american football, football, teacher, follow your dream, team, biopic, against the odds, determination, teamwork, motivation, rookie ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: philadelphia, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Double Teamed (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Heather and Heidi play volleyball for their school team, when their family decides that they need to go to a bigger school so that they will have a better chance for scholarships. But at the new school, the twins are discovered by the basketball ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, chick flick
Plot: twins, basketball, high school, against the odds, contests and competitions, ambition, human spirit, siblings relations, family life, family relations, lifestyle, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Tiger Town (1983)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Alex believed in his baseball hero Billy Young. When Billy's performance struggled, Alex's friends began to doubt Alex; and Billy began to doubt himself. Alex wants to prove to his friends, to Billy, and to himself that believing in ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, exciting, uplifting, feel good ...
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: baseball, family relations, power relations, sport team, family life, hopes, underdog, athlete and trainer, ambition, athlete's life, aging, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 ⇓
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Secretariat (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin - manages to ...
Style: inspirational, sentimental, touching, emotional, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens
Plot: horse, horse race, animal training, racehorse, underdog, against the odds, jockey, equestrian, animal, stallion, rise to the top, contests and competitions ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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