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The Finishers (2013)
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Original name: De toutes nos forces
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 in the Ironman race in Nice (French Riviera), a triathlon in which his father has previously competed.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, uplifting
Plot:
disability, family relations, human spirit, contests and competitions, youth, parents and children, teenage life, redemption, hopes, father son relationship, mountain, cycling, misfit, ambition, swimming, friendship, video game, handicapped, running, birthday, doctor, restaurant, hospital, helicopter, competition ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, alps, nice france
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Most similar movies to The Finishers
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about hopes, ambition, family relations, parents and children, contests and competitions, youth and rivalry mostly in Drama, Sport and Biography genres. Some movies like The Finishers: Dans les cordes (2007), The Straight Line (2011), If I Had Wings (2013), All Is Forgiven (2007), Marathon (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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: 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 ...
Style:
sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, uplifting
Plot:
disability, athlete's life, released from prison, ambition, human spirit, friendship, blind character, hopes, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, love, competition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug ...
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
drug addiction, father daughter reunion, family relations, teenager, redemption, parents and children, addiction, family problems, crumbling marriage, estrangement, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, austria
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
20-years-old Cho-Won (Cho Seung-Woo) is young man with autism. He lives with his highly protective mother Kyung-Sook (Kim Mi-Sook) and younger brother (Baek Sung-Hyun), who sometimes resents the attention his older brother receives from his mother. ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, inspirational, tear jerker ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
autism, disability, hopes, marathon, family relations, athlete's life, young heroes, against the odds, supportive parent, social misfits, parents and children, solace ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
Similarity:
100%
200
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jimmy Albright is a young athlete with a passion for boxing. His mentor, Harry Sloan, an aging trainer and former boxer, sees Jimmy's potential, not only as a boxer but as a young man. With Harry's guidance, Jimmy trains and fights his way ...
Style:
independent film, uplifting, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
boxing, boxer, youth, family relations, underdog, aging, supportive spouse, athlete and trainer, ambition, follow your dream, hopes, rise to the top ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
26%
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:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Marc is a passionate cyclist and urban slacker who avoids work and responsibility. Marc's life changes from one moment to the next when he suffers a life-changing accident. He can either wallow in self-pity or tackle the beast called life with ...
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
cyclist, life is a bitch, couple relations, hopes, disability, parents and children, human nature, misfit, human spirit, redemption, family relations, new love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When Dr. Marcus Sommers realizes that he and his troubled, estranged brother David may be prone a fatal brain disease that runs in their family, he decides to make peace with his sibling, and invites him on a trip to the Rockies. There, the brothers ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sad, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
cycling, bicycle, racing, bike, bicycle race, underdog, motivation, interracial, rivalry, bittersweet, mountain, lifestyle ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
colorado, usa, st. louis missouri
Similarity:
23%
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:
22%
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:
22%
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:
inspirational, realistic, serious, disturbing, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, manly, teen drama
Plot:
rugby, dedicated educator, juvenile delinquency, coach, father son relationship, athlete and trainer, redemption, human spirit, starting over, ambition, teenage life, motivation ...
Similarity:
21%
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:
21%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Reggie White stars as Reggie Knox, a pro football player who retires, frustrated because he hasn't won a championship. Knox begins coaching a Portland, Ore., high school football program, where he befriends a troubled student. Reggie fights ...
Style:
independent film, uplifting, serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
american football, football, black man, family relations, gang, school, high school, social relations, power relations, religions or cults, rivalry, human spirit ...
Time:
90s
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
21%
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:
horse trainer, jockey, friendship, contests and competitions, parents and children, teenage love, self discovery, human spirit, teenage life, against the odds, bullying, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Hungary
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Having suffered as a boy under a brutal Communist-era coach, champion Hungarian gymnast Miklos moves to Canada years later in search of a new start - only to find himself unwittingly perpetuating the very same cycle of abuse among his own pupils.
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
gymnastics, athlete's life, self discovery, human spirit, haunted by the past, ambition, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, traumatic childhood, olympics, teacher, journey ...
Time:
80s, 2000s
Place:
hungary, canada, eastern europe, europe
Similarity:
21%
237
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A former jockey who became blind after losing his wife in an accident gets a second chance with the help of his daughter and an injured horse.
Style:
uplifting, emotional, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
contests and competitions, family relations, chases and races, animal training, one last chance, against the odds, rivalry, hopes, parents and children, down on your luck, ambition, disability ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
jeju island, asia, korea
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the 1980s, Anna, a Czech sprinter, starts training for the Olympics. After she collapses during training, she learns she is being given steroids and decides to stop using them until her mother helps the coaches give them to her.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, touching, period drama
Plot:
female athlete, athlete's life, hopes, rivalry, ambition, family relations, life is a bitch, youth, contests and competitions, society, parents and children, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
europe, central europe, czechoslovakia, czech republic
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A drama revolving around characters whose lives are transformed one summer at an exclusive East Coast country club.
Style:
serious, sentimental, sincere, scenic, independent film ...
Plot:
golf, youth, ambition, prodigy, lifestyle, athlete's life, human spirit, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, social differences, teachers and students, underdog ...
Similarity:
20%
424
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Life is tough for Chol-Min - his mother died during labor, forcing him to grow up alonge with his stoic police officer father. However, Chol-Min lives a high-spirited life and roams around town with his own mutt, a half-bred police dog, making ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, gloomy, contemplative, touching ...
Plot:
coming of age, redemption, fighting crime, family relations, single parent, teenage life, hopes, adoption, small town, estrangement, society, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides that wrestling boys is the only way back to her estranged father.
Style:
realistic, touching, uplifting, serious, hood ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
human spirit, martial arts, coming of age, fight, black, teenager, perseverance, mentor, contests and competitions, rivalry, ambition, culture clash ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
Style:
touching, sentimental, captivating, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
orphan, youth, adoption, friendship, family relations, foster parent, foster child, mother son relationship, foster home, father son relationship, family life, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Mero, a skilled shipyard worker, is a single father. His son Lorenzo, born from a relationship with an Albanian girl, is his only reason for living. The father dreams that the boy will become a champion boxer, to make up for his own anonymous career ...
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot:
teenage life, follow your dream, ambition, athlete's life, lifestyle, single parent, hopes, parents and children, family relations, youth, athlete and trainer, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, rome italy, italy
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on the incredible true story of amateur cyclist Graeme Obree, who breaks the world one-hour record on a bike he made out of washing machine parts.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, captivating, inspirational ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyclist, bicycle, cycling, human spirit, scotsman, race, underdog, lifestyle, ambition, contests and competitions, hopes, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
19%
639
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sport
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
De 12-jarige Gilles droomt ervan om profvoetballer te worden en als Rode Duivel in het Koning Boudewijnstadion te spelen. Vader Bert steunt Gilles door dik en dun: hij is niet alleen Gilles' trouwste supporter, maar ook zijn persoonlijke ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, feel good, touching, realistic
Plot:
family relations, friendship, follow your dream, human spirit, against the odds, young heroes, hopes, rivalry, life turned upside down, parents and children, coming of age, underdog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, belgium, brussels
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Alex, 15, lives alone with his dad, enduring relentless physical violence, rebelling against everyone. To escape from this daily life, Alex rows on the Meuse river, and has only one obsession: to win the Belgian Singles Championships at any cost. ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
abusive father, follow your dream, teenage life, ambition, hopes, teenage love, rivalry, love and romance, obsession, life is a bitch, youth, contests and competitions ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After ten years, Jacques comes back to France to handle his father’s succession. He had left France to live in the USA to escape a painful past he shared with Mado, his former wife, who in the meantime built a new life with Stéphane and their 7 ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot:
starting over, family relations, couples, lovers reunited, parents and children, couple relations, death in the family, dead son, loss of child, dealing with death, basement, cemetery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Steve is a talented gymnast who has given up competition and is working at his father's bike shop. Julie is the new girl at his old gym, who has moved to town to train with their powerful coach. Inspired by Julie, Steve resumes training. While ...
Style:
independent film, captivating, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gymnastics, gymnast, olympics, teenager, family relations, parents and children, family life, workplace romance, athlete's life, couple relations, contests and competitions, youth ...
Time:
80s, year 1984
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A quirky coming of age story about an 11-year-old boy named Redwood who dreams that if he can beat Jack Nicklaus at the 1975 Master's of golf he'll reunite his parents.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
youth, golf, hopes, coming of age, teenage life, life turned upside down, disorder, family relations, daydreamer, misfit, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, canada
Similarity:
19%
226
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An accomplished playboy Leo neglects his girlfriend and enjoys parties. His girlfriend parts from him and then, when he wants to see her once more, he has an accident. He survives, but his whole life is now to be changed. This film is about fetching ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot:
human spirit, redemption, life turned upside down, couples, love and romance, hopes, couple relations, rehabilitation, friendship, true love, disabled person, physical disability ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
18%
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