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Bad As I Wanna Be: The Dennis Rodman Story (1998)
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Bad As I Wanna Be: The Dennis Rodman Story (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Biography of Chicago Bulls' basketball star Dennis Rodman, who is well known for his off-court and on-court shenanigans takes great effort to paint the calm, decent side of the athlete despite the film title. Dennis is shown to be pushed by his momma to play pro ball and to go to college where he would get the opportunity. Shipped to Oklahoma where he faces racism, he is taken in by a white family and coached by Lonn Reisman. The movie finally tracks Rodman into his wild, multi-haired current lifestyle. Written by John Sacksteder
Plot: basketball, basketball player, interracial relations, weirdo, eccentricity, drug, drugs
Keyword: basketball movie, sport

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, serious and touching films with plots about basketball, athlete's life, sport team, basketball player, ambition, black and lifestyle mostly in Drama, Sport and Biography genres. Some movies like Bad As I Wanna Be: The Dennis Rodman Story: Sweetwater (2023), The St. Tammany Miracle (1994), Amateur (2018), Three Seconds (2017), Rise (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sweetwater (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In the fall of 1950, Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton forever changed the game of basketball when he entered the NBA. The story of the first African American to land a contract to play in the NBA.
Style: exciting, dramatic, harsh, captivating
Plot: basketball, african american, basketball player, professional athlete, game, professional sports, african american protagonist, sports man, african american man, black, basketball coach, based on real people ...
Time: year 1950, 50s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The St. Tammany Miracle (1994)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The St. Tammany Miracle is an inspiring story which shows how a determined coach can bring a handful of individuals from the failure of a dark and dusty gym into the glaring light of a state championship!
Style: independent film
Plot: basketball, school, high school, religion, family relations
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90%
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Amateur (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 14-year-old basketball phenom Terron Forte has to navigate the under-the-table world of amateur athletics when he is recruited to an elite NCAA prep school.
Style: inspirational, captivating, semi serious, disturbing, emotional
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, sport competition, basketball player, sport team, teenager, professional sports, direction and purpose, follow your dream, desire for fame, ambitious man, professional rivalry, aspiration ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Three Seconds (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The story is set at the 1972 Munich Olympics where the U.S. team lost the basketball championship for the first time in 36 years. The final moments of the final game have become one of the most controversial events in Olympic history. With play ...
Style: atmospheric, inspirational, captivating, motivational
Plot: basketball, sport team, basketball player, olympics, terror, kgb, handicapped, coach, athlete, disability, reputation, stubbornness ...
Time: 70s, year 1970, year 1972
Place: eastern europe, lithuania, munich germany, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Rise (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After emigrating to Greece from Nigeria, Vera and Charles Antetokounmpo struggled to survive and provide for their five children, while living under the daily threat of deportation. Desperate to obtain Greek citizenship but undermined by a system ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, realistic, captivating, feel good
Audience: kids
Plot: basketball, basketball player, professional, biopic, career, basketball team, champion, professional sports, athlete's life, immigrant, direction and purpose, competitor ...
Time: year 2007, year 2017, 90s, year 2013, year 2004 ...
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Annie O (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a 15-year-old becomes the first female starter on her high school's male basketball team, her achievement is marred by the treatment she receives at the hands of her teammates, her brother and even her boyfriend.
Plot: high school sports, basketball, high school, high school basketball
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72%
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: A fast-break series chronicling the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of sports’ most revered and dominant dynasties — a team that defined an era, both on and off the court.
Style: psychological, captivating, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: basketball, basketball player, basketball team, trophy, career, winning, professional, tournament, coach, sport team, athlete's life, female nudity ...
Time: 80s, 90s, year 1991, year 1980
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Last Game (1995)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A young woman who has bad hearing tries to play basketball.
Style: crying
Plot: coach, basketball, faith, woman, basketball coach, caucasian, sign language, basketball player, young, latex gloves, basketball court, crying woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Warrior Strong (2023)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Bilal Irving, a professional basketball player returns to his small, Northern Ontario town of Dumont. He re-connects with his former coach, and conflict ensues as they both struggle to put their egos and complicated pasts aside to mentor the ...
Style: dramatic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, captivating
Plot: coach, high school, basketball, basketball player, basketball coach, professional athlete, sport team, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, sporting event, sports man, sport competition ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, emotional
Plot: basketball, addiction, drug abuse, drug, african american, black, motivation, african, athlete, heroin, biopic, power relations ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city
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61%
We Will Be the World Champions (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The story about the founders of the famous "Yugoslav Basketball School" and the first gold medal at the Championships in Ljubljana in 1970, is based on real events and is dedicated to personalities who have contributed to the emergence and ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, semi autobiographical
Audience: family outing
Plot: basketball, ambition, sport team, athlete's life, historical figure, basketball team, champion, world championship wrestling, athlete and trainer, historical character, winner, basketball player ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Glory Road (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.
Style: inspirational, emotional, sincere, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, family friendly, teens, kids
Plot: basketball, underdog, racism, athlete and trainer, coach, college, racial slur, teamwork, racial segregation, justice, unlikely friendships, civil rights ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1966
Place: texas, usa, america, mexico, maryland ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The inspiring true story of NBA great Kevin Durant's mother Wanda and her dedication to raise one of the greatest basketball players in the world. (IMDB)
Plot: basketball, father, agent, grandmother, hairdresser, team, son, chore, shooting, coach, mother, murder ...
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58%
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
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57%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
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Style: captivating, exciting, serious, dramatic
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Time: 90s, 2000s, 21st century
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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
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Wrongfully accused and sent to prison, a former basketball star prepares for the national slam dunk competition while finding redemption in himself and in those he loves.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, christian film
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
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Style: realistic, entertaining, captivating
Plot: basketball, high school sports, high school basketball, athlete and trainer, professional sports, school, competitor, rivalry, ambition, high school life, sport team, basketball team ...
Time: 2010s
Place: busan
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Swagger (2021)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Explore the world of AAU basketball in the nation’s capital, and the players, their families and coaches who walk the fine line between dreams and ambition, and opportunism and corruption.
Style: disturbing, psychological, thought provoking, captivating
Plot: basketball, basketball player, direction and purpose, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, professional rivalry, following a dream, basketball team, sport team, family problems, lifestyle, aspiration ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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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
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50%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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50%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
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Style: intense, suspense, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot: basketball, underdog, college, sport team, contests and competitions, blind ambition, lifestyle, follow your dream, prodigy, athlete and trainer, self discovery, athlete's life ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.
Style: inspirational, hood, captivating, rough, touching ...
Audience: boys' night, teen drama
Plot: basketball, prison, redemption, college, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, hip hop, forgiveness, ghetto, black, released from prison, parent child relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Faded Dreams (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 16K
Uncle Drew (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
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Style: funny, entertaining, light, humorous
Audience: adult
Plot: basketball, tournament, comeback, financial problem, athlete's life, follow your dream, sport team, against the odds, contests and competitions, ambitious, celebrity culture, rise to the top ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.3
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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
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Time: 20th century, 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The story of Mary Thomas, the mother of basketball star Isiah Thomas, and how she fought to keep her family together and her sons out of trouble despite the surroundings of poverty, drugs, crime and violence of their ghetto neighborhood.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, uplifting
Plot: urban ghetto life, basketball, single parent, hopes, society, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, athlete's life, ambition, family problems, urban ghetto, family relations ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
That Championship Season (1982)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: It started as a friendly meeting between 4 old buddies with their basketball coach and ended up in revealing the truth about their relationship. The meeting forces the five men to reveal their true identity, to be honest with each other for the ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious
Plot: basketball, coach, sport team, friends, introspection, buddies, contests and competitions, ambition, haunted by the past, friendship, basketball coach, father figure ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Zelda (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Story: Biopic about Zelda Fitzgerald, as played by Natasha Richardson
Plot: writers, art, girl, poet, alcoholism, eccentricity, mental illness, husband wife relationship, marriage, schizophrenia, modernism, mental patient ...
Time: 1920s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
White Men Can't Jump (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Seemingly opposite street hoopers, Jeremy, an injury prone former star, and Kamal, a has-been prodigy, team up to take one final shot at living out their dreams.
Style: buddy comedy, captivating, entertaining, humorous, exciting
Plot: basketball, buddy, coach, black man, tournament, life, friendship, arena, basketball player, basketball coach, black, sports man ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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