| Cheap Seats (2004) | 8.7 | |
| Million Dollar Baby (2004) | 8.1 | |
| Pain & Gain (2013) | 6.4 | |
| 42 (2013) | 7.5 | |
| Playmakers (2003) | 8.4 |
Athlete's life movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant athlete's life movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, feel good, captivating, exciting and inspirational films and TV shows about / with athlete's life, ambition, rivalry, contests and competitions, friendship, hopes, underdog, brutality, dialogue and storytelling plots mostly in Sport, Drama and Biography genres shot in USA, Germany, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as athlete's life: Blue Mountain State (2010), One Tree Hill (2003), Friday Night Lights (2004), Sarah Prefers to Run (2013), Fast Girls (2012), The Blind Side (2009), Fair Play (2014), Girlfight (2000), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Make It or Break It (2009).
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List of athlete's life movies
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Three incoming freshmen attending Midwestern college football powerhouse Blue Mountain State must quickly adapt to college life and juggle football, girls, classes and nonstop hazing.
Style:
humorous, sexy, not serious, light, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
college, american football, athlete's life, youth, friends, college life, cheerleading, sexual activity, university, teenage life, cheerleader, social relations ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the fictional small town of Tree Hill, North Carolina, this teen-driven drama tells the story of two half brothers, who share a last name and nothing else. Brooding, blue-collar Lucas is a talented street-side basketball player, but his ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, teen, touching ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
couples, high school life, high school, friendship, girlfriend, couple relations, teenage life, teenage love, youth, renewed love, friends, family relations ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town's dormant ...
Style:
inspirational, sincere, intense, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
football, high school, american football, cheerleader, sport team, high school football, underdog, championship, youth, athlete's life, small town, football team ...
Time:
80s, year 2004, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
texas, usa, houston texas, midwest, austin texas ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When Sarah has a chance to go to a first class university and to join its premiere athletic club, her suburban mother is fearful of the change and refuses to help financially. But Sarah's roommate knows that they will get a grant if they marry. ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
female athlete, athlete's life, rivalry, relationship vs career, runner, contests and competitions, ambition, college, race, lesbian, strong female lead, feminist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
montreal
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
Style:
feel good, exciting, touching, uplifting, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing, teens
Plot:
running, follow your dream, contests and competitions, sport team, society, lifestyle, friendship, social differences, rivalry, ego clash, athlete's life, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Oversized African-American, Michael Oher, the teen from across the tracks and a broken home, has nowhere to sleep at age 16. Taken in by an affluent Memphis couple, Michael embarks on a remarkable rise to play for the NFL.
Style:
touching, inspirational, sentimental, emotional, motivational ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing, teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
american football, adoption, life, african american, football, christian, interracial relations, human spirit, family drama, rising to stardom, interracial adoption, strong female character ...
Time:
year 2009, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, boston, tennessee, america, mississippi ...
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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
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Diana Guzman begins to train as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers, all while keeping it a secret from her father.
Style:
captivating, independent film, touching, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
boxing, female boxer, contests and competitions, kick-butt women, bullying, sexism, athlete's life, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, boxing trainer, female protagonist, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2000, 2000s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.
Style:
emotional, depressing, touching, sad, bad ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, family friendly, adult
Plot:
boxing, underdog, female boxer, female protagonist, determination, mentor protege relationship, athlete's life, female athlete, boxing trainer, strong female character, euthanasia, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, europe, london, las vegas ...
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the world of competitive gymnastics, the series follows a group of teen Olympic hopefuls as they train for their day in the spotlight.
Style:
feel good, captivating, serious, teen, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
gymnastics, athlete's life, youth, olympics, friends, follow your dream, female athlete, social relations, rivalry, gymnast, ambition, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, hawaii, colorado
Is relevant?
406K
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The Fighter, is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being ...
Style:
inspirational, realistic, sincere, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
boxing, boxer, addiction, underdog, biopic, athlete's life, drug abuse, drug addiction, change of luck, white trash, fight, working class ...
Time:
year 2010, 20th century, 2000s, 90s, 80s ...
Place:
boston, massachusetts, america, new jersey, usa ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Argentina
TV show
Story:
This gritty dramatization of the life of Carlos Tevez shows his rise to soccer stardom amid the harrowing conditions in Argentina's Fuerte Apache.
Style:
exciting, inspirational, sentimental, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
soccer, athlete's life, football player, football, soccer coach, sport team, football team, sporting event, playing football, rise to the top, professional sports, prodigy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Is relevant?
276K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. However, when tragedy strikes, Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his house and ...
Style:
touching, serious, sentimental, inspirational, dramatic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
boxing, boxer, death of wife, father daughter relationship, athlete's life, tragedy, contests and competitions, down on your luck, grief, parenthood, fight, boxing training ...
Time:
year 2015, year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, usa, new york, las vegas, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.
Style:
inspirational, serious, realistic, uplifting, factual ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
following a dream, soccer, athlete's life, rags to riches, football player, rise to the top, contests and competitions, prodigy, rivalry, soccer match, youth, father son relationship ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
brazil, latin america, africa, sao paulo brazil
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.
Style:
cult classic, inspirational, patriotic, realistic, meditative ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
rise to the top, olympics, biopic, talented, running, life, athlete's life, indians, lifestyle, rising to stardom, army, ambition ...
Time:
year 2013, 60s, 50s, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place:
india, middle east, asia, pakistan, rome italy
Is relevant?
21K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A raw family drama set against the world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) in Venice, California. Alvey Kulina owns Navy St. MMA with the help of his girlfriend Lisa Prince. He is willing to go through extraordinary means to make sure his fighters are ...
Style:
serious, erotic, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
athlete's life, gym, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, mixed martial arts, drug addiction, martial arts, closeted homosexual, gay, sibling relationship, competition, family problems ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, south america, california, los angeles, venice california
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is linked with two others: The family of a young boy is split due to the events in World War II, and the father returns from Russia after eleven years. The second ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
soccer, athlete's life, working class, pow, human spirit, follow your dream, against the odds, hopes, contests and competitions, boy, football, society ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 50s, post world war two, 1950s
Place:
west germany, budapest, europe, germany, hungary ...
Is relevant?
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
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
The true story of boxer, Jim Braddock who, in the 1920’s after his retirement, has a surprise comeback in order to get him and his family out of a socially poor state.
Style:
touching, inspirational, sentimental, motivational, uplifting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, manly
Plot:
boxing, underdog, human spirit, great depression, boxer, biopic, athlete's life, roman empire, poverty, fight scenes, depression, protective male ...
Time:
1930s, year 2005, 2000s, year 2006, 1920s ...
Place:
netherlands, usa, new jersey, new york, madison square garden manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant?
108K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The powerful story of Jackie Robinson, the legendary baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he joined the roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The film follows the innovative Dodgers’ general manager Branch Rickey, the ...
Style:
sentimental, period piece, touching, factual, intense ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
racism, baseball, athlete and trainer, african american, rise to the top, racial segregation, civil rights, athlete's life, against the odds, biopic, black history, justice ...
Time:
1940s, year 1946, 2010s, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place:
africa, new york, usa, pasadena california, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant?
190K
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, touching, motivational, hood, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
basketball, teacher, mentor, teachers and students, underdog, athlete and trainer, high school, athlete's life, dedicated educator, sport team, life philosophy, college ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, new jersey, usa, san francisco, sacramento california ...
Is relevant?
240K
Genre: Action, Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices. After several failed attempts, ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, humorous, sexy, funny ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
american dream, kidnapping, money, athlete's life, group of criminals, hot and sexy, stupidity, scam, bodybuilder, sex scene, escape, buddies ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 20th century, year 1995, year 1994 ...
Place:
miami, florida, usa, bahamas, mexico ...
Is relevant?
32K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Haley is a naturally gifted athlete but, with her social behavior, the teen seems intent on squandering her abilities. After a final brush with the law, a judge sentences her to an elite gymnastics academy run by a legendary, hard-nosed coach. Once ...
Style:
feel good, teen, sexy, funny, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
gymnastics, teenager, rebelliousness, athlete and trainer, gymnast, rivalry, friends, contests and competitions, happy ending, high school, fighting the system, competition ...
Time:
2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
austin texas, texas, usa, houston texas
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Genre: Drama, History, Sport, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Berlin 36 is a 2009 German film telling the fate of Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was replaced by the Nazi regime by an athlete later discovered to be a man. The film is based on a true story and was released in ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, realistic, uplifting, period drama
Plot:
olympics, athlete's life, friendship, against the odds, racism, society, contests and competitions, politics, world war two, underdog, shoah, gender bending ...
Time:
20th century, year 1936, 1930s
Place:
berlin germany, germany
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unavailable. He wants them to box each other. They agree as long as the winner gets a shot at the ...
Style:
road movie, inspirational, melancholic, intense, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
boxing, friendship, boxer, contests and competitions, athlete's life, underdog, hopes, ambition, road trip, sex scene, love triangle, on the road ...
Time:
90s
Place:
las vegas, usa, los angeles, new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Set high atop snow-capped mountains in the adrenaline-fueled world of competitive snowboarding, the Disney Channel Original Movie “Cloud 9″ tells the inspiring story of two snowboarders who must overcome self-doubt to learn that achieving their ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, teen
Audience:
teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
snowboarding, follow your dream, couples, parents and children, nothing goes right, disorder, opposites attract, ski resort, athlete's life, snowboard, contests and competitions, extreme sport ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
utah, usa, seattle
Is relevant?
526K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother, an ex-marine ...
Style:
emotional, tense, inspirational, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, manly
Plot:
martial arts, courage, mixed martial arts, fight scenes, boxing, fistfight, estrangement, muscleman, happy ending, father son relationship, athlete and trainer, fight ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, usa, iraq, atlantic city new jersey, el paso texas ...
Is relevant?
94K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Doug Glatt, a slacker who discovers he has a talent for brawling is approached by a minor league hockey coach and invited to join the team as the "muscle." Despite the fact that Glatt can't skate his best friend, Pat, convinces him to ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, humorous, sweet, witty ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
hockey, dimwit, success, ice hockey, gay brother, relationships, love story, underdog, fame, gay son, misfit, bouncer ...
Time:
y2k, 21st century
Place:
nova scotia, nova scotia, canada, canada, quebec, new jersey ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Artem Kolchin was one of many, but he wanted glory. And he has chosen the way: he became the boxer. Now Artem the applicant for a champion title, fighter, known worldwide as Great White Hope. But the main fight in his life has not gone how he ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
boxer, boxing, love affair, athlete's life, blindness, contests and competitions, ambition, rivalry, love and romance, chase, relationships, fighting crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
Is relevant?
242K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ Rocky Balboa, reigning heavyweight titleholder, Mason Dixon retaliates by challenging Rocky to a nationally televised, 10-round exhibition bout. To the surprise of his son and ...
Style:
inspirational, sincere, touching, melancholic, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, manly, family outing
Plot:
boxing, father son relationship, comeback, boxer, athlete's life, training, fight, life, life philosophy, restaurant owner, loneliness, against the odds ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, las vegas
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