Student athlete movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant student athlete movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, feel good, entertaining, inspirational and captivating films and TV shows about / with student athlete, sport, college, coach, sport team, teenager, ambition, youth, friendship and underdog plots mostly in Drama, Sport and Comedy genres shot in USA, Germany, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as student athlete: 1 Mile To You (2017), Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), All the Right Moves (1983), Zero Chill (2021), Greater (2016), Wolves (2016), Forever Strong (2008), Teen Wolf Too (1987), The Hillz (2004), Glee (2009).
Best films
List of student athlete movies
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After a teenager's friends die in an accident, he finds running allows him to remember them perfectly. Running, however, also brings him notoriety. He is caught between keeping the past alive and making new memories in the present.
Style:
exciting, romantic, captivating, uplifting, sad
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
runner, student athlete, race, sport team, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, training, competition, coach, running, athlete's life, teenager, sport ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A comedy that follows a group of friends as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.
Style:
humorous, realistic, talky, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
baseball, college, friendship between men, college life, party, sport, youth, coming of age, rivalry, male objectification, friendship, student athlete ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 1980, 21st century
Place:
texas, california, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could ...
Style:
feel good, realistic, talky, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
high school, american football, sport, college, football, friendship, small town, coming of age, student athlete, coach, cheerleader, cheerleading ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
pennsylvania, california, new jersey, usa, pittsburgh
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story:
Talented teen figure skater Kayla is forced to leave everything behind when her family follows her twin brother, Mac, to a prestigious hockey academy.
Style:
sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
ice hockey, skating, figure skating, athlete's life, teenage girl, hockey player, rivalry, family problems, ice skater, brother sister relationship, direction and purpose, female athlete ...
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Genre: Biography, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Greater – The story of Brandon Burlsworth, possibly the greatest walk-on in the history of college football.
Style:
light, unusual plot structure, visually appealing, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, family outing
Plot:
american football, sport, student athlete, christian, religion, student, athlete, sport team, athlete and trainer, university student, team, football ...
Place:
arkansas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Anthony Keller, star of his NYC high school basketball team, is riding his way to Cornell on a sports scholarship. But he can only maintain his popular jock facade for so long, as his troubled father Lee has a gambling addiction that threatens to ...
Style:
suspenseful, unusual plot structure, captivating, tense, contemplative
Plot:
basketball, coach, student athlete, teenage boy, coming of age, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, domineering father, interracial friendship, teenage girl, teen romance, basketball player ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rick Penning lives life just like he plays rugby; fast, hard-hitting and intense. When life on the edge lands him in jail, prison ward Marcus Tate offers him a chance to get back in the game by playing for his rival, Highland Rugby. Reluctantly Rick ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, disturbing, rough ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
rugby, coach, dedicated educator, juvenile delinquency, sport, father son relationship, human spirit, ambition, redemption, starting over, teenage life, rivalry ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Although awkward college student Todd Howard is particularly adept at science, he's paying for school with an athletic scholarship that he will lose should he not fare well in an upcoming boxing tournament. Luckily for Todd, he has inherited ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, psychotronic, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, teen fantasy
Plot:
werewolf, teenager, college, student athlete, suspense, superhero, campus, teenage life, college life, dangerous animal, society, moral dilemma ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A promising college athlete takes a turn for the worse when he hooks up with old highschool friends during his summer break.
Style:
serious, surreal, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
drug dealing, white trash, prostitute, juvenile delinquency, friendship, student athlete, baseball, teen drinking, high school friends, lifestyle, buddies, gang ...
Place:
california, usa
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150K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Glee is an American teen musical comedy-drama television series that airs on the Fox network in the United States. It focuses on the reconstituted William McKinley High School glee club, New Directions, which competes on the show choir competition ...
Style:
stylized, feel good, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, gay, teenage life, cheerleader, coach, contests and competitions, youth, outcast, friendship, performance, gay teenager, ambition ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
ohio, usa
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the early 70s, Cathy Rush becomes the head basketball coach at a tiny, all-girls Catholic college. Though her team has no gym and no uniforms -- and the school itself is in danger of being sold -- Coach Rush looks to steer her girls to their ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, emotional, sincere, light ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
basketball, college, mother superior, catholic school, sport, human spirit, against the odds, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, ambition, hopes, catholic ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Henry Steele is a basketball phenom at his small town high school, but when he matriculates to a big city university on a scholarship, soon realizes that he has few skills outside the sport. Expected by his coach to contribute significantly to the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, melancholic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, college, coach, young lovers, ambition, follow your dream, sport, youth, coming of age, athlete and trainer, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time:
70s
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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, intense, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
football, sport, high school, sport team, american football, coach, underdog, youth, championship, athlete's life, career, cheerleading ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, canada, austin texas, california ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Based on the incredible true story, The Express follows the inspirational life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, factual, uplifting, serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
american football, sport, african american, racism, athlete and trainer, football, college, human spirit, friendship, mentor, courage, ambition ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 60s, 50s
Place:
usa, new york, texas, new jersey, cleveland ohio
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
From the outside, Alexa has the perfect life. Her son is the high school football star, daughter a straight A student and her husband is CFO of a booming start-up company. The sudden death ...
Style:
christian film, light, captivating, uplifting, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot:
american football, christian, faith, religion, high school football, high school student, high school athlete, belief in god, high school, christianity, death of father, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, wisconsin, america
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110K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Japan, Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Saban's Power Rangers follows five ordinary teens who must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove — and the world — is on the verge of being obliterated by an alien threat. Chosen by destiny, our ...
Style:
psychotronic, super sentai, parody, visually appealing, buddy movie ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
teenager, superhero, power rangers, superhero team, transformation, good versus evil, monster, teenage superhero, teenage life, high school, mission, martial arts ...
Time:
2010s, prehistory, year 2017, prehistoric times
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
After getting ousted from his job in the NCAA for throwing a chair at a referee, a hothead men’s basketball coach Marvyn Korn must take a job at Westbrook School for Girls, a private all-girls high school, in an effort to redeem what's left ...
Style:
feel good, light, funny, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
sport, basketball team, basketball coach, sport competition, basketball, high school basketball, disney, basketball player, coach, female athlete, sport team, athlete's life ...
Place:
california
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169K
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher's hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone-crushing power might vault his team into the playoffs.
Style:
funny, parody, humorous, feel good, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
sport, football, college, social outcast, american football, bullying, underdog, cheerleading, rags to riches, mentor, farce, ridicule ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
louisiana, usa, new jersey, new orleans, southern usa
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56K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
In 1980, the United States Ice Hockey team's coach, Herb Brooks, put a ragtag squad of college kids up against the legendary juggernaut from the Soviet Union at the Olympic Games. Despite the long odds, Team USA carried the pride of a nation ...
Style:
touching, factual, uplifting, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot:
ice hockey, sport, olympics, underdog, mentor, disney, human spirit, coach, sport team, grudge, contests and competitions, athlete's life ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s, year 1980
Place:
usa, new jersey, boston, canada, milwaukee wisconsin ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing professional football. Everyone see the chance to make some big money, but when a reporter digs up ...
Style:
feel good, witty, humorous, stylized, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
american football, football, sport, underdog, sport team, vengeance, life philosophy, justice, redemption, rivalry, cheerleader, hopes ...
Time:
1920s, post world war one, 1930s, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, chicago illinois, minnesota, usa, france ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Louisiana football star Gavin Grey had it all. He was an All-American champion who married his high-school sweetheart, homecoming queen Babs Rogers, and who was a hero to his hometown. Yet after a failed professional career, Gavin realizes that fame ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, psychological, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
american football, sport, friendship, college, football, ambition, midlife crisis, athlete's life, family problems, teenager, marriage, self discovery ...
Time:
80s, 50s
Place:
louisiana, usa, new jersey
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156K
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:
motivational, inspirational, touching, sincere, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
basketball, sport, high school, teacher, teachers and students, athlete and trainer, underdog, teenager, life philosophy, athlete's life, human spirit, dedicated educator ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, new jersey, texas, usa, sacramento california ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This ensemble comedy follows the Pullham University Bluecocks, a small liberal arts college with a Division III football program (the lowest division in the NCAA). When the head coach unexpectedly dies, the future of the flailing football program is ...
Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
american football, cheerleader, ambition, fight, sport team, power relations, sport, contests and competitions, social relations, athlete and trainer, against the odds, football ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two Americans (Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna), stranded in the mideastern country of Fawzia, help an Arab leader (Peter Ustinov) build a football team so it can play and hopefully beat Notre Dame. Director J. Lee Thompson's ...
Plot:
american football, cheerleading, fictional country, student athlete, cold war, belly dancing, harem, air disaster, fall in love, father son relationship, espionage, american football player ...
Time:
60s
Place:
middle east, ussr, indiana
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
College whiz-kid Merlin Jones concocts a method for teaching advanced information to a chimpanzee, then creates a flying machine of his own design, ultimately raising havoc on the campus.
Style:
exciting, semi serious, humorous, psychotronic, offbeat
Audience:
family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
disney, american football, college, chimpanzee, monkey, aviation, student athlete, animals, sport team, animal life, disorder, power relations ...
Time:
60s
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767
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Remember the beach movies of the sixties? They're back! Well, not quite, but since Avalon, Hickman, and even Funicello appear in this one, it sure feels right. This time, though, read snow instead of sand and you got it. Ski lodge, to be ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, campy, psychotronic
Plot:
beach party, student athlete, skiing, ski, friends, buddies, love and romance, switching roles, youth, looking for sex, teenage life, rock ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Rich Bower is an up-and-coming star in the hip-hop world. Everyone wants to be around him, including Raven and her fellow upper-class white high school friends. The growing appeal of black culture among white teens fascinates documentary filmmaker ...
Style:
stylized, serious, realistic, talky, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
hip hop, gangsters, high school, interracial relations, athlete's life, culture clash, musician's life, society, racism, social differences, city life, gay ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
new york, new jersey, california, usa, manhattan new york city
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13K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An acclaimed college hoops coach is demoted to a junior varsity team after a public meltdown.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, touching, funny, melancholic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
basketball, sport, sport team, college, youth, underdog, redemption, follow your dream, human spirit, lifestyle, against the odds, prodigy ...
Time:
80s
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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, feel good, sincere, emotional, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
basketball, racism, underdog, athlete and trainer, coach, sport, college, racial slur, teamwork, racial segregation, justice, unlikely friendships ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1966
Place:
texas, usa, el paso texas, indiana, maryland ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Whiton University unravels the night a star-athlete is murdered, kicking off a spree of social media slayings that force students to uncover the truth behind the school's hidden secrets and the horrifying meaning of an exclamation point.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
suspense, murder, fraternity, serial killer, psychopath, chase, killing spree, violence, athlete, sociopath, university, social media ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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