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Palm Springs Weekend (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in Palm Springs during a long, fun-filled weekend where several Los Angeles college students flock to spring break, centering on Jim who finds romance with Bunny, the daughter of Palm Springs harred, stressful police chief. Jim's bumbling ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Plot: college, spring break, bugs bunny, student athlete, beach party, college life, car chase, friendship, resort, love triangle, fall in love, chase ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: california, palm springs california
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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
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, airplane crash, cold war, belly dancing, harem, father son relationship, fall in love, college football, american football player ...
Time: 60s
Place: middle east, soviet union, indiana
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 5.2
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Ski Party (1965)
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: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: beach party, xmas, music and dance, rock and roll, winter olympics, student athlete, olympics, skiing, ski, friends, rock, teenage life ...
Time: 60s
Place: usa
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Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Peter Ustinov stars as the eponymous wraith, who returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Elsa Lanchester (Stowecroft). The villains want to kick Lanchester and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good ...
Style: entertaining, light, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: pirate, ghost, gambling, witch, college, afterlife, magic, betrayal, superhero, male female relationship, fish out of water, supernatural ...
Place: new england
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The Rain People (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A housewife who feels trapped leaves home and takes up with a hitchhiker.
Style: road movie, cult classic, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot: road trip, swing, loneliness, psychiatry, women, student athlete, feminist, housewife, runaway, hitchhiker, pregnant woman, on the road ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: nebraska
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Drive, He Said (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, Gabriel, who may have dropped out from school and become a ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, gloomy, sincere
Plot: basketball, student athlete, comedian, pregnancy, college, college life, nudity, insanity, cheerleader, athlete's life, ambition, rebellion ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: usa, ohio
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The Way We Were (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, captivating, intellectual ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: mccarthyism, naval officer, couples, politics, breakup, husband wife relationship, adultery, love story, passion, world war two, love and romance, friendship ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 1930s, 1950s, pre world war two ...
Place: usa, new york, california, middle east, malibu california ...
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The World's Greatest Athlete (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he can reverse the school's athletic fortunes. An African vacation with his assistant (Tim Conway) answers Archer's prayers when he spots the ...
Style: slapstick, not serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: american football, track and field, police, animal, student athlete, jungle, fall in love, farce, fish out of water, power relations, disorder, rivalry ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: africa, usa
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 7.1
 6K
The Gambler (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
Style: suspense, intense, tense, clever, realistic ...
Plot: addiction, gambling addiction, college, character study, debt, gambling debt, casino, bookies, gambling, hopes, gangster, bet ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, las vegas, harvard university
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
Style: funny, slapstick, humorous, absurd, light ...
Audience: kids
Plot: kidnapping, farce, law enforcement, vengeance, chase, pink panther, spy, save the world, manic, comedy of errors, goofy hero, fighting crime ...
Time: 20th century, year 1976, 70s
Place: munich germany, west germany, england
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 6.1
 861
Fast Break (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along some players, who are a bit odd but good. Like Swish who unknown to the rest of the team is a girl. ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, student athlete, transsexual, teenager, culture clash, college, stoner, sport team, disorder, power relations, youth, ambition ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: nevada, usa, new york
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 6.0
 312
The Bear (1984)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Biopic about the great college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant of the University of Alabama.
Style: independent film
Plot: american football, bear, football, student athlete, husband wife relationship, college football, college, interracial relations, sport team, soccer coach, wooing, dressing room
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Jocks (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The coach of a college tennis team is given an ultimatum: put together a winning team, or else.
Style: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, grindhouse, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, teenager, gambling, tennis, sleaze, student athlete, racial slur, debauchery, gay stereotype, racial stereotype, lesbian bar, sex scene ...
Place: las vegas
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Johnny Be Good (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college ...
Style: independent film, teen sex comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: american football, football, brat pack, cheerleader, college, high school, underdog, coming of age, teenager, revenge, student athlete, love ...
Time: 80s, future
Place: texas, alabama, los angeles
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Necessary Roughness (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When the Texas Southern Armadillos football team is disqualified for cheating and poor grades, the University is forced to pick from a team that actually goes to school. Will they even win a single game?
Style: entertaining, inspirational, light, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, manly, kids, boys' night
Plot: american football, underdog, football team, sport team, college, football, happy ending, transformation, human spirit, rivalry, hopes, against the odds ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: texas, usa, austin texas
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The Cutting Edge (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two former Olympians, one a figure skater and the other a hockey player, pin their hopes of one last shot at Olympic glory on one another. That is, of course, if they can keep from killing each other in the process...
Style: sweet, feel good, light, romantic comedy, teen ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, kids, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: figure skating, skating, opposites attract, underdog, happy ending, olympics, fall in love, competition, love, hockey, winter, couples ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: france, minnesota, chicago
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 6.5
 12K
The Program (1993)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Several players from different backgrounds try to cope with the pressures of playing football at a major university. Each deals with the pressure differently, some turn to drinking, others to drugs, and some to studying.
Style: talky, exciting, intense, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: american football, football, underdog, justice, college life, sport team, lifestyle, hopes, human spirit, love triangle, ambition, contests and competitions ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: usa
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 7.5
 69K
Rudy (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems. His grades were a little low, his athletic skills were poor, and he was only half the size ...
Style: inspirational, tear jerker, uplifting, emotional, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: underdog, american football, biopic, college, football, aspiration, college life, motivation, american football player, learning disability, education, inspiration ...
Time: 70s, 90s, 20th century, 60s
Place: indiana, boston, usa
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 6.6
 17K
Above the Rim (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.
Style: hood, inspirational, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, hip hop, african american, gang, african american gangster, high school, urban, ghetto, black, violence, gangster, coming of age ...
Time: year 1994, 20th century, 90s
Place: harlem
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The Air Up There (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the ...
Style: black comedy, funny, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot: basketball, culture clash, student athlete, humour, sport team, power relations, disorder, scout, contests and competitions, misfit, ambition, hopes ...
Time: year 1994, 20th century, 90s
Place: africa
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 6.3
 15K
Blue Chips (1994)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team aren't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete ...
Style: intense, suspense, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot: basketball, underdog, college, sport team, contests and competitions, blind ambition, lifestyle, follow your dream, prodigy, athlete and trainer, self discovery, athlete's life ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: chicago, indiana
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 8.8
 2.2M
Forrest Gump (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes ...
Style: inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: life & death, philosophy, life philosophy, mentally challenged, destiny, love, rise to the top, human spirit, selflessness, storytelling, life, journey ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, 50s, 1950s ...
Place: usa, washington d.c., vietnam, china, alabama ...
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 6.4
 31K
Little Giants (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When Danny O'Shea's daughter is cut from the Peewee football team just for being a girl, he decides to form his own team, composed of other ragtag players who were also cut. Can his team really learn enough to beat the elite team, coached ...
Style: feel good, slapstick comedy, romantic comedy, funny, epic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: american football, underdog, football, cheerleader, childhood, coach, sexism, brother brother relationship, father daughter relationship, sibling rivalry, wager, single father ...
Time: 90s
Place: ohio
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Higher Learning (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Malik (Omar Epps) is an African-American student attending on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will earn him a free ride through college. Fudge (Ice Cube), a ...
Style: realistic, hood, intense, serious, emotional ...
Plot: racism, lesbian, college, politics, hip hop, university, college life, skinhead, violence, prejudice, black, stereotypes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles
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 7.3
 285K
Jerry Maguire (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what ...
Style: feel good, motivational, inspirational, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: football, career, love story, american football, single mother, workplace romance, friendship, business, starting over, love, introspection, boss and employee ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2010s
Place: usa, cuba
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 5.9
 2K
Sunset Park (1996)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A white school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined black high school basketball team and turns them into a winning team.
Style: hood, humorous, grim, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: basketball, high school, hip hop, underdog, black, urban, african american, teacher, student athlete, hip hop culture, danger, blaxploitation ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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 6.4
 53K
Tin Cup (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A washed up golf pro working at a driving range tries to qualify for the US Open in order to win the heart of his succesful rival's girlfriend.
Style: sexy, entertaining, light, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: golf, underdog, love, psychologist, competition, redemption, multiple storylines, rivalry, happy ending, love and romance, desert, man-woman relation ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: texas, usa, north carolina, austin texas
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Black & White (1999)
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, hood, talky ...
Plot: hip hop, gangster, high school, interracial relations, athlete's life, culture clash, musician's life, society, social differences, city life, racism, gay ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 6.5
 17K
Feast of Love (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.
Style: touching, romantic, semi serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: infidelity, lesbian, lesbian sex, love, friendship, woman on top, coffee shop, female nudity, american football, sex on first date, female pubic hair, small town ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa, portland oregon
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 4K
Init!ation (2020)
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, suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: murder, fraternity, serial killer, psychopath, athlete, danger, killing spree, university, violence, chase, social media, blood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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