Movies like Casey's Shadow

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Casey's Shadow (1978)
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Casey's Shadow (1978)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Casey's family raises and trains race horses, and their latest undersized foal named Casey's Shadow does not seem to have a lot going for it, but may turn out to be a champion.
Style: sincere, emotional, realistic, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: horse, horse race, racehorse, coming of age, horse trainer, family relations, against the odds, gambling, friends, rich and poor, alcohol abuse, parents and children, athlete and trainer, best friend, follow your dream, rivalry, ambition, down on your luck, rehabilitation, animal life, workplace intrigue, contests and competitions, underdog, odd couple, buddies ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: louisiana, new mexico
Keyword: sport

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, feel good, touching and semi serious films with plots about hopes, contests and competitions, ambition, rivalry, family relations, underdog and youth mostly in Drama, Family and Sport genres. Some movies like Casey's Shadow: Big Spender (2003), Sylvester (1985), Secretariat (2010), The Derby Stallion (2005), The Bad News Bears (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Big Spender (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Orphan Eddie Burton is not bad, but too many screw-ups land him repeatedly in jail, so his 8-year old son Will, simply abandoned by his 'mother', has nobody else then Eddie's granny. When he hears about a program for convicts working ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious
Plot: horse, redemption, rehabilitation, rider horse relationship, prison, against the odds, ambition, human spirit, follow your dream, parents and children, life is a bitch, rivalry ...
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95%
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Sylvester (1985)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Charlie is a 16-year-old orphan struggling to raise her two younger brothers when she endeavors to train a wild horse she names Sylvester and turn him into an Olympic jumping champion.
Style: fairy tale, uplifting, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: girl horse relationship, horse, equestrian, strong female lead, wild west, horse race, family relations, orphan, attempted rape, animal life, friends, power relations ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: texas, austin texas, kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 7.2
 30K
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 ⇓
78%
The Derby Stallion (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An alcoholic former horse-trainer perceives in a fifteen-year-old boy a unique gift of horsemanship and makes it possible for the boy to conceive his dream and pursue it.
Style: realistic, serious, feel good, touching
Audience: family outing
Plot: jockey, horse trainer, self discovery, friendship, human spirit, against the odds, teenage life, rivalry, follow your dream, youth, contests and competitions, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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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 ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens
Plot: horse, horse race, redemption, animal, animal training, children, girl horse relationship, secrets, betrayal, racehorse, hopes, human spirit ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: kentucky, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Bad News Bears (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
Style: inspirational, intense, talky, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: baseball, underdog, youth, baseball coach, coach, childhood, competition, unlikely friendships, sport team, motorcycle, human spirit, contests and competitions ...
Time: 20th century, year 1976, 70s
Place: california, usa, san francisco, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Jump In! (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Story revolves around a young boxer, Izzy Daniels, who trains to follow in his father's footsteps by winning the Golden Glove. When his friend, Mary, however, asks him to substitute for a team member in a Double Dutch tournament, the young man ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, teen
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: human spirit, friendship, athlete's life, follow your dream, against the odds, ambition, lifestyle, teenage life, teenager, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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
Audience: family outing
Plot: basketball, miraculous event, college, athlete's life, human spirit, ambition, against the odds, sport team, rivalry, follow your dream, underdog, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Virginia's Run (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A teenage girl, trying to come to grips with the death of her mother in a horse-riding accident, nurtures the foal of her mother's horse.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, serious, independent film
Audience: pre-teens, adult
Plot: ambition, follow your dream, mischievous children, against the odds, teenage life, youth, love and romance, rehabilitation, contests and competitions, hopes, athlete and trainer, family life ...
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Racing Stripes (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's spent his life on a Kentucky farm amidst the sorely mistaken notion that he's a debonair thoroughbred. Once he faces the fact that his stark ...
Style: humorous, inspirational, feel good, touching, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: zebra, horse race, underdog, horse, animal life, animal, farm, friendship, ambition, rescue, contests and competitions, rivalry ...
Place: kentucky, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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 ⇓
75%
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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 ⇓
74%
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Safe at Home! (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A Florida boy (Bryan Russell) tells his Little League buddies that his father knows two New York Yankees (Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris).
Style: uplifting, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: baseball, youth, new york yankees, coach, sport team, partner, parents and children, against the odds, school, teenage life, cons and scams, power relations ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Home Run Showdown (2012)
Genre: Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two little league teams take on their coaches' sibling rivalry, and end up doing battle in a place the baseball world never expected: in the outfield of the Home Run Derby.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: baseball, youth, young heroes, ambition, family relations, contests and competitions, rivalry, parents and children, teenage life, coming of age, sport team, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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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 ⇓
72%
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Madison (2001)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 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, friendship, contests and competitions, rivalry, lifestyle, ambition, rising to stardom, hopes ...
Time: year 2001, 70s
Place: usa, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Underdogs (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set in rural Ohio, the birthplace of football, UNDERDOGS is the story of a small-town high school football team destined to play their cross-town rival, a perennial powerhouse, while standing up for an entire community.
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, ambition, human spirit, athlete and trainer, rivalry, youth, follow your dream ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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 ⇓
72%
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Rodeo Girl (2016)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Shipped off to her American dad's ranch for the summer, a teen and her horse Lucky Lad compete for a spot at the National Youth Rodeo.
Style: disturbing, captivating, entertaining
Audience: family outing
Plot: horse, girl horse relationship, human animal relationship, racehorse, father daughter relationship, rodeo, rider horse relationship, animal, family relations, teenage life, father and daughter, contests and competitions ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Moondance Alexander (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The curiously named, Moondance Alexander is a spirited teen living with her eccentric mother. She is faced with another uneventful summer until she discovers a lost pinto pony named Checkers who has jumped out of his paddock. Although Moondance ...
Style: feel good, realistic, serious, sincere
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: horse, horse riding, girl horse relationship, friendship, ambition, young heroes, follow your dream, obsessive quest, human spirit, against the odds, hopes, contests and competitions ...
Place: colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Where the Red Fern Grows (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for 2 years to achieve his dream of buying two coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in God as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, gothic, sad ...
Audience: kids, family outing, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot: hound dog, friendship, dog, follow your dream, family relations, contests and competitions, animal, hunting, wilderness, american history, canine, animal lover ...
Time: 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Price of Glory (2000)
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, ambition, lifestyle, human spirit, follow your dream, ego clash, tough heroes, athlete and trainer, obsession, rivalry, contests and competitions ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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50 to 1 (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A misfit group of New Mexico cowboys find themselves on the journey of a lifetime when they learn their crooked-footed racehorse qualifies to run in the Kentucky Derby. Based on the true story of Mine That Bird, the cowboys must overcome impossible ...
Style: feel good, realistic, touching, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: horse, horse race, against the odds, rivalry, hopes, chases and races, ambition, contests and competitions, racehorse, animal training, fish out of water, winner ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico, louisville kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Like Mike 2: Streetball (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Another young boy with 'hoop dreams' finds an old pair of Michael Jordan's sneakers and can suddenly play ball like the greatest player in the world.
Style: realistic, humorous, black comedy, semi serious
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: basketball, true love, friendship, hopes, rivalry, athlete's life, follow your dream, underdog, human spirit, athlete and trainer, buddies, ambition ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Brink! (1998)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Andy "Brink" Brinker and his in-line skating crew--Peter, Jordy, and Gabriella--who call themselves "Soul-Skaters" (which means they skate for the fun of it, and not for the money), clash with a group of sponsored skaters, Team ...
Style: captivating, feel good, semi serious, exciting, epic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: friendship, rivalry, underdog, rise to the top, teenage life, dishonesty, rising to stardom, betrayal, hopes, ambition, moral dilemma, youth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Going to the Mat (2004)
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, disability, blind character, high school, sport team, friendship, teenage life, human spirit, follow your dream, teenage love, athlete and trainer, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: utah, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
The Sandlot: Heading Home (2007)
Genre: Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A successful professional baseball player gets his ego in check via an unreality check when he travels back in time to his boyhood sandlot ball-playing days.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, saga
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids, teens
Plot: baseball, youth, friendship, sport team, partner, friends, buddies, hopes, athlete and trainer, underdog, ambition, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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The Champ (1979)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The more you love, the harder you fight.The world looks at Billy Flynn and sees a has-been who seemingly never was, an ex-boxing champion slammed to the mat years ago by booze and gambling. But Billy's son TJ sees what the world doesn't. ...
Style: sentimental, sad, emotional, heartfelt, neo noir ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: boxing, boxer, boy, coming of age, father, gambling, death, father son relationship, underdog, redemption, bittersweet, fight ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: usa, florida, ireland, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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The Long Shot (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Annie Garret is a young woman who moves with her irresponsible husband Ross and their seven-year-old daughter Taylor from Colorado to a ranch in northern California where Ross abandons them after he fails to land a job. With no money and no friends, ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, sincere
Audience: family outing
Plot: horse, equestrian, follow your dream, starting over, ambition, family relations, parents and children, friendship, single parent, hopes, farm, animal life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colorado, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Kart Racer (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 14-year-old Watts Davies is estranged from his dad, a former International Karting Federation (IKF) champion. Watts's resolve to race in the upcoming IKF Regional Championships rekindles their relationship as they pursue the dream together.
Style: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, teenage life, against the odds, athlete's life, ambition, human spirit, lifestyle, follow your dream, parents and children, teaching the ways of the world, rivalry, contests and competitions ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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