Professional rivalry movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant professional rivalry movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, entertaining, exciting, inspirational, intense and light films and TV shows about / with professional rivalry, rivalry, ambition, professional sports, rivals, athlete's life, friendship, competitor, champion and chase plots mostly in Drama, Sport and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as professional rivalry: Rush (2013), Bruce Almighty (2003), The Night Flier (1997), Re-Animator (1985), Swagger (2021), Primal Fear (1996), Bad Teacher (2011), Ace of Diamond (2013), Backflip!! (2021), Liberdade 21 (2008).
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554K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A biographical drama centered on the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula One motor-racing season.
Style:
inspirational, realistic, exciting, clever, visually stunning ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
racing, race car, car race, racecar driver, formula 1, success, rise to the top, motor sport, car racing, race, world champion, rivalry ...
Time:
70s, year 2013, 2010s, year 1970, year 1976 ...
Place:
europe, britain, vienna, japan, mount fuji ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, N.Y. Despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Grace, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules ...
Style:
funny, humorous, feel good, light, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
god, religion, wish come true, chosen one, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, supernatural power, divine intervention, selfishness, deal, niagara falls, reporter, job promotion ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
north america, mount everest
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two investigative reporters for a tabloid magazine track down across country "The Night Flier", a serial killer who travels by private plane stalking victims in rural airports. One of the reporters, Richard Dees, begins to suspect that ...
Style:
scary, suspense, splatter, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Plot:
vampire, reporter, stephen king, supernatural, airplane, evil wins, professional rivalry, airport, investigation, monster, serial killer, macabre ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york state, maryland
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
Style:
splatter, lovecraft, bloody, black comedy, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
violence, mad scientist, zombie, insanity, reanimated corpse, female nudity, dark humor, overdose, gory, laboratory, hospital, evil scientist ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, europe, austria, zurich switzerland
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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:
thought provoking, psychological, captivating, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
basketball, basketball player, athlete's life, professional rivalry, direction and purpose, athlete and trainer, basketball team, sport team, following a dream, family problems, aspiration, lifestyle ...
Place:
usa
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279K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not ...
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, psychological, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, mental illness, murder, courtroom drama, plot twist, trial, psychology, courtroom, court case, corruption, lawyer, manipulation ...
Time:
90s, future, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa
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222K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A lazy, incompetent middle school teacher who hates her job and her students is forced to return to her job to make enough money for a boob job after her rich fiancé dumps her.
Style:
funny, not serious, humorous, rom com, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick, adult ...
Plot:
selfish woman, school, bribery, profanity, sex scene, school teacher, teachers and students, sex, female protagonist, compulsive liar, female teacher, sexy teacher ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Eijun Sawamura is a pitcher who joins an elite school with a brilliant catcher named Kazuya Miyuki. Together with the rest of the team, they strive for Japan's storied Koushien championships through hard work and determination.
Style:
anime, humorous, feel good, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
baseball, friendship, high school, teamwork, competition, sport team, athlete's life, professional rivalry, baseball player, baseball team, team, teammate ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The final summer of middle school, Shotaro Futaba discovers boys gymnastics and is completely enamored by it. Shotaro ends up going to Soshukan Private High School (aka Ao High) and decides to visit the boys gymnastics club. He's greeted by ...
Style:
anime, captivating, entertaining
Plot:
contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, slice of life, friends, gymnast, friendship, teamwork, student, sport team, rivalry, professional rivalry, overcoming ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Portugal
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
In each episode, an apparently lost cause goes to court. However, the various stages of the case show us that not everything is as it seems and that no case is solved until the sentence is read.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, clever, captivating
Plot:
lawyer, justice, false accusation, ambition, workplace, employer employee relationship, witness, friendship, professional rivalry, testimony, female lawyer, dark secret ...
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film's two main protagonists are Russia's best saber fencers. One of them has long been in the limelight, the other only recently made it into the national team and has been winning almost every tournament since. The two athletes begin ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, exciting, motivational ...
Plot:
fencing, swordsman, contests and competitions, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, professional rivalry, rivalry, rivals, ambition, professional sports, hopes, olympics ...
Place:
russia, eastern europe, moscow russia
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A family believes they are aliens from other planets and tries to save Earth from impending calamity.
Style:
exciting, contemplative, light, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
ufo, environment, global warming, solar system, mad woman, celebrity, ritual, student, japanese girl, japanese police, brother sister relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
William has failed to kill himself so many times that he outsources his suicide to aging assassin Leslie. But with the contract signed and death assured within a week (or his money back), William suddenly discovers reasons to live... However Leslie ...
Style:
dark comedy, ironic, light, feel good, cynical ...
Plot:
death wish, writers, suicide attempt, hitman, traumatized man, psychological manipulation, suicidal tendency, kidnapping, criminal, saving a life, chase, killer ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The 1980s snooker rivalry between Alex “Hurricane” Higgins and Steve “The Nugget” Davis, two very different personalities who helped popularise the sport on TV.
Style:
unusual plot structure, captivating, sincere, disturbing, humorous ...
Plot:
snooker, alcohol abuse, professional sports, british, professional athlete, self destructing, manager, rivalry, husband wife relationship, professional rivalry, family man, sports hero ...
Time:
80s, year 1982, 70s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with massive talent ...
Style:
comedy drama, semi serious, captivating, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot:
businessman, lesbian, filmmaking, filmmaker, eccentric woman, gays and lesbians, workplace situations, eccentricity, understanding, ambition, co worker co worker relationship, eccentric man ...
Place:
iberian peninsula
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Canada, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Max is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest — and last — gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for the caterers, a vain, hyper- sensitive singer who thinks he's a Gallic James Brown, and a ...
Style:
light, humorous, feel good, laugh out loud, happy ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
wedding planner, wedding, event planner, food, plan gone awry, wedding party, sarcasm, bride and groom, coworker relationship, extramarital affair, interracial romance, rivals ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
TV show
Story:
This mini-series focuses on two people, Tracy Whitney and Jeff Stevens. In the beginning, Tracy was an innocent, who was in love and pregnant, with the son of an affluent family. Obviously her family did not approve of her. She would sent ot prison ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, entertaining, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
diamond theft, art thief, romantic rivalry, caper, couples, mentor protege relationship, possessed human, lovers, revenge, chess, con artists, women's prison ...
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Genre: Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Gabby Ferrar moves to the town of Bright Shore, Massachusetts to open a restaurant after a stint as a sous chef in New York. Upon arrival, she encounters Caleb Delaney, a single father who runs his own restaurant and coaches the girls’ softball ...
Style:
romantic, light, touching, realistic
Plot:
brother brother relationship, restaurant owner, love, father daughter relationship, enemies to lovers, cooking, competition, in laws, chef, male female relationship, professional rivalry, summer romance ...
Place:
new england, new york
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Genre: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
UFC 292: Sterling vs. O'Malley was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on August 19, 2023, at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. A UFC Bantamweight Championship bout ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, captivating
Plot:
cage fighting, mixed martial artist, mma fighter, mixed martial arts, ultimate fighting championship, professional rivalry, martial arts tournament, professional wrestler, combat, battle zone, professional wrestling, hand to hand combat ...
Place:
boston
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Colombia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a newly single photographer is forced to work with a longtime rival, the battle of their egos turns into a chance for love.
Style:
romantic comedy, captivating, semi serious, satirical, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
relationships, female protagonist, pregnancy, rivalry, love and romance, love interest, male female relationship, workplace romance, pregnant woman, fall in love, professional rivalry, enemies to lovers ...
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2K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, Germany, France, Brazil, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When Marcelo Pena finally is about to be appointed Head of the Philosophy Department, the famous and seductive Professor Sujarchuk returns from Europe to claim the kingdom for himself.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, semi serious, intense, satirical ...
Plot:
university, university professor, professor, rivalry, philosophy, professional rivalry, satire, teacher, competitor, ambition, power struggle, jealousy ...
Place:
buenos aires argentina
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Genre: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The National Heads-Up Poker Championship is an annual poker tournament held in the United States and produced by the NBC television network. It is a $25,000 "buy-in" invitation-only tournament organized as a series of one-on-one games of ...
Style:
entertaining, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
poker, gambling, poker player, card playing, mind game, gambler, sporting event, professional sports, professional rivalry, tournament, television, game ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
usa, las vegas
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Genre: Action, Sport
Country: Canada
Story:
Backlash (2004) was the sixth annual Backlash PPV. It was presented by Square Enix's Drakengard. It took place on April 18, 2004 at the Rexall Place in Edmonton, Alberta and was a Raw brand-exclusive event. The main event was a Triple Threat ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, exciting, intense
Plot:
wrestling, professional wrestling, professional sports, professional rivalry, sporting event, professional wrestler, arena, title bout, champion, championship, rivalry, fight ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
Survivor Series (2006) was a PPV presented by THQ's WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2007. It was the twentieth annual Survivor Series event, and it took place on November 26, 2006 at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The main match on ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining, exciting, intense
Plot:
wrestling, professional wrestling, sporting event, professional rivalry, professional sports, title bout, wrestler, scuffle, champion, rivalry, professional wrestler, competitor ...
Place:
philadelphia
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Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
WWE Clash of Champions comed to TD Garden in Boston, Mass. in this high-stakes SmackDown LIVE pay-per-view stacked with title clashes, including WWE Champion AJ Styles against former titleholder Jinder Mahal, absolutely anything can happen.
Style:
entertaining, exciting, captivating
Plot:
wrestling, professional wrestling, arena, championship, sporting event, professional rivalry, professional sports, professional wrestler, title bout, muscleman, wrestler, champion ...
Place:
boston
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Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
NXT Takeover is a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by WWE. It took place May 29, 2014, at the Full Sail University in Tampa, Florida. The event will featured five matches, three of which were contested for championships.
Style:
entertaining, exciting, captivating, intense, dramatic
Plot:
wrestling, professional wrestling, rivalry, arena, fight, professional rivalry, martial arts tournament, professional wrestler, professional sports, sporting event, combat, fistfight ...
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17K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Jackie Justice is a mixed martial arts fighter who leaves the sport in disgrace. Down on her luck and simmering with rage and regret years after the fight, she's coaxed into a brutal underground fight by her manager and boyfriend Desi and grabs ...
Style:
inspirational, tense, captivating, disturbing, deep ...
Plot:
female boxer, female wrestler, martial arts, mother and son, mixed martial arts, arena, women, relationship vs career, professional wrestler, mother child relationship, athlete's life, combat ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
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169K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
The story of how Richard Williams served as a coach to his daughters Venus and Serena, who will soon become two of the most legendary tennis players in history.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, thought provoking, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
tennis, athlete and trainer, father daughter relationship, athlete's life, strict father, biopic, black, african american, family relations, coach, rivalry, real life ...
Time:
2020s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Endless competitions take place on the ping pong tables with two young men at the center. Xu Tan is physically weak but strongly passionate and Yu Kenan is unruly but talented. Despite their opposite personalities, Xu Tan and Yu Kenan's mirror ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, motivational, inspirational
Plot:
coming of age, table tennis, ping pong, rivalry, tournament, contests and competitions, athlete's life, professional rivalry, direction and purpose, sport team, ambitious, career ...
Place:
china
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
In the Four Islands Archipelago, people can use Grav-Shoes to fly around! This is the story of Asuka Kurashina, a transfer student that arrives at Kunahama Academy from outside the Four Islands. After seeing the ability of wearers to soar in the ...
Style:
anime, entertaining, captivating, futuristic, inspirational ...
Plot:
flying, school, direction and purpose, sport team, rivalry, professional rivalry, aspiration, advanced technology, athlete and trainer, schoolgirl, ambitious, contests and competitions ...
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