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List of professional rivalry movies
Genre: Family
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Inspired by Czech Republic's 1998 Olympic win, 11-year-old Dom forms a hockey team with friends to pursue their dreams against all the odds.
Style:
psychological, captivating, feel good, period piece, juvenile
Plot:
ice hockey, ambition, rivalry, youth, children, teamwork, teenage boy, teenage protagonist, teenager, professional rivalry, aspiration, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
90s
Place:
czech republic
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Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
NXT Arrival was a live professional wrestling event produced by WWE held on February 27, 2014, at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida. This was the first NXT Wrestling live event and the first live event to broadcast on the WWE Network ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, entertaining
Plot:
wrestling, professional wrestling, champion, sporting event, professional sports, battles, fight club, title bout, muscleman, battle zone, martial arts, martial arts tournament ...
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Genre: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Hard Justice (2007) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which took place on August 12, 2007 at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the third event under the Hard ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, entertaining
Plot:
wrestling, professional wrestling, master warrior, battles, wrestler, muscleman, competitor, combat, martial arts tournament, title bout, fight club, sporting event ...
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Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Story:
Victory Road (2012) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV)event produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion, which took place on March 18, 2012 at the Impact Wrestling Zone in Orlando, Florida.[2][3] It was the eighth ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, exciting
Plot:
wrestling, professional wrestling, hand to hand combat, battles, professional rivalry, sporting event, fistfight, battle zone, martial arts tournament, muscleman, mixed martial arts, competitor ...
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
The night after WrestleMania XXVIII, Brock Lesnar made a shocking return to the ring and leveled John Cena with an F-5, sending a message that after eight years, the pain is back! In 2002 and 2003, The Next Big Thing brought it to the biggest and ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, entertaining
Plot:
wrestling, professional wrestling, fight club, ambition, combat, fight, hand to hand combat, muscleman, sporting event, mixed martial arts, professional sports, title bout ...
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Genre: Sport
Country: USA
Story:
SummerSlam (2007) was the twentieth annual SummerSlam PPV. It was presented by THQ's Stuntman Ignition. It took place on August 26, 2007 at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey and featured talent from each of ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, entertaining
Plot:
wrestling, title bout, martial arts, competitor, combat, professional wrestling, mixed martial arts, fistfight, fight for supremacy, battle zone, master warrior, professional rivalry ...
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Genre: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Many cruiserweight wrestlers from around the world battle in the 32-man tournament.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, exciting
Plot:
wrestling, tournament, professional wrestling, title bout, wrestler, professional wrestler, martial arts, fistfight, professional rivalry, combat, master warrior, battles ...
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Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Armageddon (2000) was a professional wrestling PPV that took place on December 10, 2000, at the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center in Birmingham, Alabama. It was the second annual Armageddon event, and the only WWE pay-per-view event ever to be held ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, captivating
Plot:
wrestling, title bout, cell, battles, battle zone, fight for supremacy, sporting event, champion, fight, combat, scuffle, rivalry ...
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Genre: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
WWE Velocity was a professional wrestling television program produced by World Wrestling Entertainment. It replaced two syndicated WWE shows, Jakked/Metal. Once a weekly Saturday night show on Spike TV and on Sky Sports 2 in the UK on Sunday ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining, exciting, non fiction
Plot:
wrestling, professional wrestling, martial arts tournament, battle zone, battles, hand to hand combat, title bout, professional rivalry, fight club, scuffle, mixed martial arts, master warrior ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A rousing tale of the Korean athletes who ran the 1947 Boston International Marathon, the first international marathon held since World War II.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, period piece, road movie ...
Plot:
athlete, marathon, running, problem, sport competition, runner, track and field, competition, ambition, professional rivalry, japanese occupation of korea, based on real people ...
Time:
1940s, year 1936, 1930s, 20th century, year 1947
Place:
korea
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Genre: Sport
Country: USA
Story:
UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor 2 is an upcoming mixed martial arts event that will be held on August 20, 2016 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, exciting
Plot:
mixed martial arts, rivalry, arena, submission, martial arts tournament, muscleman, professional wrestling, professional rivalry, fistfight, sporting event, professional sports, competitor ...
Place:
las vegas, nevada
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Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
Extreme Rules (2016) is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It will take place on May 22, 2016, at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. It was originally supposed to take place on May 1, 2016, at the ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, captivating, action packed
Plot:
wrestling, professional wrestling, professional wrestler, professional sports, rivalry, competitor, contest, arena, combat, muscleman, sporting event, fight ...
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
NXT Takeover: Fatal 4-Way took place on September 11, 2014. WWE had also advertised for KENTA's debut at the event. KENTA changed his name to Hideo Itami during his debut.
Style:
exciting, captivating, fast paced
Plot:
professional wrestling, wrestling, arena, professional rivalry, fight, competitor, champion, professional wrestler, muscleman, fistfight, sporting event, rivalry ...
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Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 234 min.
Story:
Extreme Rules 2019 is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view and WWE Network event produced by WWE for their Raw and SmackDown brands. It will take place on July 14, 2019 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It will be ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, exciting
Plot:
wrestling, professional wrestling, competitor, fistfight, arena, scuffle, combat, fight, martial arts, professional wrestler, sporting event, female wrestler ...
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Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
NXT TakeOver: The End is an upcoming professional wrestling show in the NXT TakeOver series is scheduled to take place on June 8, 2016. It will be produced by WWE, showcasing its NXT division, and will stream live on the WWE Network. It will take ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, captivating
Plot:
professional wrestling, wrestling, arena, title bout, professional wrestler, professional sports, wrestler, combat, sporting event, fistfight, muscleman, contest ...
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Genre: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
Royal Rumble (2007) was the twentieth annual Royal Rumble PPV. It took place on January 28, 2007 at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas and featured talent from the Raw, SmackDown! and ECW brands. The main event was the annual 30-man ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, captivating, action packed, intense ...
Plot:
wrestling, professional wrestling, arena, rivals, professional wrestler, wrestler, title bout, fight, muscleman, rivalry, competition, competitor ...
Place:
san antonio texas, texas
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Genre: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
WWE Payback 2015 is a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by WWE. It took place on May 17, 2015, at the Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore, Maryland. It's the third event under the Payback chronology, and the first Payback event to ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, entertaining, action packed
Plot:
professional wrestling, arena, champion, competitor, fight, battles, professional sports, professional wrestler, muscleman, scuffle, title bout, rivalry ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
baltimore
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Genre: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Kiku and Ryuji take over their late father’s ambition of becoming a boxing champion. As his sister trains him, Ryuji progresses physically and mentally and he finally meets his destined rival, Jun.
Style:
anime, exciting, entertaining, captivating, shounen
Plot:
boxing, boxer, boxing match, boxing champion, militant, athlete and trainer, championship, sparring, athlete's life, professional rivalry, competitor, champion ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are introduced to the sport of lacrosse.
Style:
captivating, tense, feel good, inspirational, earnest
Plot:
lacrosse, community, school, indigenous people, teachers and students, small town life, lifestyle change, social problems, contests and competitions, teacher, ambition, contest ...
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: China
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Zhang Chi, a hubris and dominating six-time racing champion, falls from grace following a crisis. After a five-year suspension from the motorsport, the now single-father to a six-year-old boy throws down the gauntlet once again.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, captivating, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
auto racing, racing, champion, athlete's life, racecar driver, competitor, car, professional sports, escapades, rivalry, second chance, race car ...
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10K
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In a world where monster wrestling is a global sport and monsters are superstar athletes, teenage Winnie seeks to follow in her father’s footsteps by coaching a loveable underdog monster into a champion.
Style:
adult animation, psychotronic, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
wrestling, kaiju, training, creature feature, teenage girl, coach, champion, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, desire for fame, monster versus monster, escapades ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The film is dedicated to the first steps of mankind on the path of space exploration and direct the fate of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The main motif - the fight for the right to be first: the competition in the first cosmonaut, competition ...
Style:
realistic, exciting, serious, dramatic, emotional ...
Plot:
outer space, space exploration, spacecraft, space mission, cosmonaut, national hero, folk hero, follow your dream, rise to the top, biopic, workplace, escapades ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
ussr, soviet union, russia, ukraine
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Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Makunouchi Ippo is the new Featherweight champion of Japan and is now ready for his first title defense. His opponent, the former Jr. Featherweight champion and a medical student, Sanada Kazuki. In addition to this feud, Sanada is being coached by ...
Style:
anime, entertaining, captivating, humorous, intense ...
Plot:
boxing, rivalry, boxer, competition, determination, championship, boxing champion, competitor, fight, athlete's life, contests and competitions, champion ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
An inspiring biopic about the legendary skier Elena Vyalbe. Born in a small town in the north of Russia, she had the courage and dedication to overcome a slew of obstacles on her way to becoming the very best in her sport. The film captures a ...
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, emotional, motivational, period drama
Plot:
skiing, rivalry, biopic, perseverance, winter sports, female athlete, victory, determination, inspiration, contests and competitions, direction and purpose, aspiration ...
Time:
90s
Place:
russia
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Musical, Romance, Sport
Country: Philippines
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Two men from different backgrounds team up to win a billiards challenge in this underdog sports drama from the Philippines. Pakners stars real-life pool legend Efren "Bata" Reyes as a man who's just been conned out of his savings when ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining, psychological, disturbing, humorous ...
Plot:
billiards, gambling, teamwork, ambition, rivalry, money problems, competitor, financial problem, professional rivalry, hopes, working class, friendship ...
Place:
the philippines
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sport
Country: China
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A boxer and a journalist accidentally exchange bodies after they are struck by current, embarking a series of adventures.
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
switching bodies, boxing, body swapping, reporter, professional rivalry, contests and competitions, professional wrestler, female journalist, militant, humour, competitor, rivalry ...
Place:
china
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Based on the book “The Legend of Mickey Tussler”, this film follows the story of eighteen-year-old Mickey Tussler, who lives on a farm with his father and mother and who has Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism. But he can throw apples at an ...
Style:
christian film, captivating, disturbing, entertaining, sincere
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
baseball, asperger's syndrome, autism, baseball team, baseball player, professional athlete, coach, athlete's life, sport team, ambition, rivalry, athlete and trainer ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
Kimura finally has his championship match. It takes place at the annual champion carnival. But now he must face the intense champion, Mashiba for the Junior Lightweight championship.
Style:
anime, intense, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
boxing, rivalry, fight, championship, combat, wrestler, professional wrestler, professional rivalry, master warrior, battles, competitor, militant ...
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Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
This sports anime is set in Nikko City, Tochigi Prefecture, and follows a team of girls as they aim for the top in the sport of ice hockey. It’s about team-building, friendship and competition!
Style:
anime, captivating, feel good, entertaining
Plot:
tournament, school, female friendship, slice of life, rivalry, aspiration, sport team, ambition, female protagonist, professional rivalry, young girl, direction and purpose ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based a on a true story about two sisters who came out on top of a man's sport. The story is based on Erica and Courtney Enders, two sisters who get in to junior drag racing and make it all the way to the top. The two sisters fight a battle of ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, teen
Audience:
teens
Plot:
auto racing, sibling relationship, car race, drag racing, showdown, rivalry, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, sports car, contests and competitions, racecar driver, racing ...
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