Racehorse movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant racehorse movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental and feel good films and TV shows about / with racehorse, horse, horse race, girl horse relationship, horse trainer, animals, rivalry, contests and competitions, underdog and ambition plots mostly in Drama, Sport and Family genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as racehorse: Seabiscuit (2003), One Love (2018), Lean on Pete (2017), Secretariat (2010), Phar Lap (1983), Dream Horse (2020), Hidalgo (2004), 50 to 1 (2014), Running Wild (2017), Spirit Untamed (2021).
Best films
List of racehorse movies
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, feel good, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
horse, horse race, racehorse, sport, follow your dream, underdog, against the odds, marriage, self made man, jockey, depression, life philosophy ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, year 1938, 20th century, future ...
Place:
california, pasadena california, tijuana mexico, chicago illinois, san francisco ...
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12K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Turkey
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The mid 90’s. Turkey’s political instability, inflation and hopelesness on people were increased. In those years when all hope was lost, people deeply bond with Bold Pilot and Halis Karataş who win every race coming from the last place. People ...
Style:
exciting, touching, inspirational, light, sentimental
Plot:
horse race, racehorse, horse, jockey, race, hopes, sport, love and romance, friendship, rivalry, rise to the top, ambition ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
turkey
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Charley, a teen living with his single father, finds work caring for an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete. When he learns Pete is bound for slaughter, the two embark on an odyssey across the new American frontier in search of a place to call home.
Style:
road movie, sad, exciting, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
horse, teenage boy, racehorse, coming of age, teenager, single father, father son relationship, doctor, on the road, horse trainer, death of father, running ...
Place:
portland oregon
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin - manages to ...
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, touching, emotional, romantic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
horse, sport, horse race, animals, animal training, racehorse, underdog, against the odds, equestrian, beautiful scenery, jockey, horse riding ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, History, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Australia of the 1930s. From his humble beginnings the New Zealand bred horse raced on to become the hero of a nation.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, serious
Plot:
horse, racehorse, horse race, sport, equestrian, great depression, greed, attempted murder, friendship, gambling, friends, love and romance ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
melbourne australia, mexico, latin america, sydney australia, australia
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan Vokes. With very little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream and compete with ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, captivating, light ...
Plot:
horse race, horse, racehorse, horse trainer, jockey, animals, girl horse relationship, ambitious, friendship, everyday life, follow your dream, working class ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2019
Place:
wales
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83K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Sport, Western
Country: USA, Morocco
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Set in 1890, this is the story of a Pony Express courier who travels to Arabia to compete with his horse, Hidalgo, in a dangerous race for a massive contest prize, in an adventure that sends the pair around the world...
Style:
exciting, inspirational, epic, factual, intense ...
Plot:
horse, desert, horse race, cowboy, adventurer, racehorse, lone hero, animals, underdog, human spirit, rivalry, contests and competitions ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
middle east, saudi arabia, syria, iraq, boston ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A misfit group of New Mexico cowboys find themselves on the journey of a lifetime when they learn their crooked-footed racehorse qualifies to run in the Kentucky Derby. Based on the true story of Mine That Bird, the cowboys must overcome impossible ...
Style:
feel good, uplifting, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
horse, horse race, racehorse, against the odds, sport, rivalry, hopes, contests and competitions, ambition, animal training, fish out of water, winner ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the horse (in fact is a mare)and save it of being sacrificed by the owner.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, touching, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
horse, horse race, sport, family relations, redemption, animal training, children, honest, secrets, betrayal, racehorse, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kentucky, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Canada, France, New Zealand
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The Adventures of The Black Stallion is a television series that was loosely based on the movies The Black Stallion and The Black Stallion Returns, which starred Mickey Rooney and Richard Ian Cox, as a trainer and a teenaged horse racer. The series ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, atmospheric
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
horse, racehorse, gambling, horse race, horse trainer, jockey, corruption, bittersweet, rivalry, young heroes, redemption, human spirit ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Stella Davis is a widow who saves her ranch by working with convicts to rehabilitate a herd of wild horses that wandered on to her property. Stella must fight prejudice, greed, bureaucracy and vanity (including her own) to finally understand that ...
Style:
scenic, captivating, compassionate, lyrical, sentimental ...
Plot:
wild horse, ranch, horse ranch, racehorse, rancher, convict, widow, prisoner, confined, animals, re-education, animal training ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Western
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Lucky Prescott's life is changed forever when she moves from her home in the city to a small frontier town and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, sincere, anime, 3d animation ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
horse, female protagonist, cartoon horse, wild horse, racehorse, human animal relationship, girl horse relationship, desert, animals, wild animal, animal life, friends ...
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Genre: Family, Sport
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A 14-year-old girl who works at a racetrack trains a talking racehorse with issues, transforming him into a winner.
Style:
sincere, feel good, captivating, entertaining
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, girl horse relationship, disney, teenage girl, talking horse, talking animals, racehorse, sport, contests and competitions, horse trainer, human animal relationship, rider horse relationship ...
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Genre: Biography, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After a near-fatal accident, on a horse the experts thought was nothing special, a determined rider from the wrong side of the tracks defies all the odds to pursue her dreams of winning a national jumping championship.
Style:
sincere, disturbing, captivating, emotional
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, equestrian, horse trainer, girl horse relationship, human animal relationship, faith, physical therapy, rider horse relationship, animals, strong female lead, strong female character, accident ...
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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, self discovery, friendship, jockey, ambition, human spirit, against the odds, teenage life, rivalry, youth, underdog, follow your dream ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
The jockey curriculum at the Horse Racing School... A school with incredibly difficult entrance requirements, where only one out of every ten to twenty applicants is accepted, and students need not just book smarts, but also physical and athletic ...
Style:
anime, entertaining, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
horse race, equestrian, jockey, athlete's life, competition, teenager, professional rivalry, professional sports, rivalry, teenage life, school, adolescence ...
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Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a rebellious teen is arrested and sentenced to an equine therapy camp, she forms a connection with a spirited thoroughbred that she helps train with the guidance of the ranch's no-nonsense owner.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, girl horse relationship, therapy, horse trainer, animal human communication, troubled youth, rider horse relationship, lifestyle change, changing lives, assistant, youth, rebellious youth ...
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261
Genre: Action, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The adventures of Katherine ' Kit' Bridges who relocates to England when her father joins the faculty at Covington Academy, an elite equestrian boarding school.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, father daughter relationship, academy, mountie, lifestyle, racehorse, rider horse relationship, school, athlete's life, boarding school, family relations, father
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Germany
TV show
Story:
Young witch Bibi Blocksberg spends her summer riding horses in the province of Falkenstein with her friend Tina Martin.
Style:
sincere, captivating, feel good, entertaining
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing
Plot:
girl horse relationship, human animal relationship, horse ranch, teenage life, rider horse relationship, racehorse, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, teenager, animal human communication, girlfriend, friendship, teenage girl ...
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688
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National
Style:
sad, realistic, serious, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot:
horse, horse race, racehorse, doctors and patients, equestrian, horseman, chemotherapy, cancer, power relations, family relations, unfulfillment, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
kentucky, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Due to the sudden outbreak of a hurricane, a traveling circus, famous for its stunning numbers with horses, calls into the small German estate of Kaltenbach. Soon, Ari realizes that one of the horses of this circus, named Orcan, is in mortal danger. ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, horse riding, girl horse relationship, circus, traveling circus, suspense, racehorse, fighting the system, escapades, characters in danger, horse actor, horse trainer ...
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490
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Shergar, Ireland's most decorated thoroughbread and perhaps the greatest race horse of all time, is kidnapped by IRA terrorists and held for a $2 million ransom. Can a young stable boy save Shergar's life... and his own before it's ...
Style:
serious, realistic, factual, exciting, sincere ...
Plot:
horse, ira, abduction, investigation, horse riding, family relations, folk hero, political unrest, husband wife relationship, champion, horse race, irish republican army ...
Time:
90s, year 1983
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A tomboyish juvenile delinquent, Paschal Draney, is sent to live in a foster home run by a well-known horse breeder where he befriends a Thoroughbred seemingly crippled by a congenital eye defect.
Plot:
horse, accident, responsibility, success, race, friendship, underdog, love, girl horse relationship, racehorse, animals, family relations ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Orphan Eddie Burton is not bad, but too many screw-ups land him repeatedly in jail, so his 8-year old son Will, simply abandoned by his 'mother', has nobody else then Eddie's granny. When he hears about a program for convicts working ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
horse, redemption, rehabilitation, rider horse relationship, prison, against the odds, human spirit, follow your dream, ambition, parents and children, hopes, contests and competitions ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The lives and loves behind the scenes at the racetrack are detailed in this thoroughbred soap opera. An ambitious young trainer, Joel Tarrant (Ty Hardin), enters into an illicit affair with the stable owner's wealthy wife, hot-to-trot Laura ...
Plot:
horse race, adultery, extramarital affair, racehorse, fistfight, auction, heart attack, bet, model, jockey, horse trainer, motel ...
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446
Genre: Drama
Country: Kyrgyzstan, Netherlands, Germany, France, Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Centaur lives a modest life with his family in rural Kyrgyzstan until he abruptly becomes the center of attention when he is caught stealing a racehorse at night. A story inspired by the myth when horses became the wings of men.
Plot:
racehorse, countryside, exile, theft, mute woman, doctor, mute, sign language, widow, husband wife relationship, horse, police ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place as Julien Vercel (Jean-Louis Trintignant), an estate agent who knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discover that Marie-Christine Vercel ...
Style:
art house, neo noir, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
investigation, women, murder, false accusation, police interrogation, lawyer, jealousy, office, accused of murder, clerk, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france, europe, nice france, marseille
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Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The crew of PT-73 get into trouble when they back the wrong horse in a race. Now they have to come up with a way to raise the money to pay off the winners.
Audience:
kids
Plot:
world war two, military, submarine, sea, u.s. navy, war, boat, gambling, beach, racehorse, sailor, frenchwoman ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943
Place:
pacific ocean
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Peter and Michael, raised on the streets of Philadelphia, are the children of Irish mob members, forever linked by the crimes of their fathers. 30 years later, Michael now runs the criminal organization and lusts for more power, his dangerous antics ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
irish mob, cousin cousin relationship, betrayal, social relations, family relations, lifestyle, organized crime, rivals, rivalry, male protagonist, parents and children, power struggle ...
Place:
philadelphia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
17-year-old Jana has a congenital heart defect. To defy fate, Jana seeks every challenge, plunges into every wild and dangerous adventure. Her parents does not like that and are even more in constant fear of their daughter.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, sincere, sentimental, touching
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
heart disease, girl horse relationship, horse race, strong female character, strong female lead, parents and children, parents, illness, rider horse relationship, death of boyfriend, horse, teenage girl ...
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