Rugby player movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant rugby player movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, psychological, realistic, emotional, suspense and intense films and TV shows about / with rugby player, rugby, friendship, coming of age, school, athlete's life, high school, ambition, rivalry and sport team plots mostly in Drama, Sport and Comedy genres shot in USA, Japan, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as rugby player: In from the Side (2022), Mercenary (2016), All American (2018), Rugby (2021), Invictus (2009), Prep School (2015), A Season With (2015), Try Knights (2019), Head High (2020), Carter High (2015).
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List of rugby player movies
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Two men in a gay men's rugby club must conceal an adulterous affair they unwittingly fall into before it leads to the collapse of the delicate social and political fabric of the club.
Style:
captivating, psychological, art house, gay cinema, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, gay interest, rugby, gay crush, gay sex, gay romance, affair, bare chested male, male nudity, lgbt, gay athlete, gay erotica ...
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Odyssey Saône, a young Wallisian of Caledonian origin, leaves everything behind to try his luck in France as a rugby player. Soane is thirsty for freedom, fighting for recognition that it lacks.
Plot:
male nudity, male objectification, black, photograph, photography, nudity, male pubic hair, death of father, bare breasts, airport, singing, funeral ...
Place:
oceania
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
When a rising high school football player from South Central L.A. is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High, the wins, losses and struggles of two families from vastly different worlds - Compton and Beverly Hills - begin to collide. Inspired by ...
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, emotional, ambiguous ending, inspirational ...
Plot:
american football, high school football, male objectification, high school, father son relationship, coach, football team, rise to the top, stubbornness, family problems, sport team, rivalry ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
beverly hills
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
In the story, Russian gymnastics champion Nastya quits her favorite sport due to a conflict with her coach. Unable to imagine life without victories, the girl goes to women's rugby. Max, who left boxing and mixed martial arts at one time, ...
Style:
captivating, intense
Plot:
rugby, female athlete, rivalry, ambition, rugby player, teamwork, contests and competitions, male female relationship, professional rivalry, couple relations, professional sports, athlete's life ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
russia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby ...
Style:
inspirational, sincere, christian film, uplifting, political ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
human spirit, rugby, racism, politics, president, apartheid, leadership, underdog, leader, biopic, politician, life philosophy ...
Time:
year 2009, 90s, 2000s, year 1995, 20th century
Place:
south africa, africa, cape town south africa, johannesburg south africa, england ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Upon learning of his girlfriend's infidelity, Greg, the star player of his elite private school’s rugby team, suffers an emotional breakdown, leaving his friends and teammates to pick up the pieces and deal with the crisis in their own ways, ...
Style:
surprise ending, independent film, ambiguous ending
Plot:
rugby, school, private school, revenge, high school, preparatory school, racism, fight, loyalty, conspiracy, student, friendship ...
Place:
california, san francisco
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Genre: Sport
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
From the classroom to the locker room to the kick-off each week, viewers are transported behind-the-scenes, beyond the field and into the lives of these student athletes as they compete throughout the season. Go deep inside the world of a Division ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, motivational
Plot:
college football, american football, football team, high school football, notre dame cathedral, behind the scenes, sport team, rugby, soccer coach, american football player, athlete and trainer, rugby player ...
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Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Riku Haruma enters high school without a future in sight. He sees people playing like monsters on the ground, jumping higher than anyone else, running fast, deciding to try their best. There, he sees Akira Kariya playing rugby, a sport he was once ...
Style:
anime, captivating, entertaining
Plot:
rugby, high school life, rugby player, schoolgirl, school, desire for fame, professional sports, athlete and trainer, ambition, athlete's life, sport team, coming of age ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
TV show
Story:
This drama charts the rise of high school rugby stars, Mana and Tai. Under the guidance of their step-father coach Vince and police officer mum Renee, the brothers fight to achieve the Kiwi dream of the black jersey.
Style:
disturbing, captivating
Plot:
athlete's life, rugby player, athlete and trainer, mother son relationship, father son relationship, teenage life, family relations, parents and children, brothers, ambitious, rugby, kids and family ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The true story of four student athletes from Carter High School in Dallas, Texas in the 1980s, whose bright futures irrevocably changed due to their off-field activities.
Style:
captivating, dramatic, intense, emotional, crime drama ...
Plot:
football, american football, high school, sport team, rugby player, football team, athlete's life, rugby, high school football, football player, college football, professional sports ...
Time:
80s
Place:
dallas texas, texas
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Set in the mid-1970s, the film is based on the true story of Yoshiharu Yamaguchi, a teacher and former Japanese international rugby union player, who turned-around a failing high school in Kyoto, giving special attention to the rugby team, which ...
Style:
captivating, inspirational, emotional, realistic, period drama
Plot:
rugby, teacher, coach, rivalry, teachers and students, contests and competitions, coping, direction and purpose, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, rugby player, school ...
Time:
70s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Animation
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Natsusa Yuzuki entered university expecting to be the rugby club's ace, but he can no longer play rugby due to certain circumstances. Ibuki Ueoka is a senior who also quit playing rugby. There is also Yasunari Tsuru, Natsusa's junior who ...
Style:
anime, psychological, captivating, emotional, motivational
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rugby, competition, university, boy, school, friendship, teamwork, athlete's life, sport team, teenage protagonist, teenage life, rugby player ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Australia, Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, the story begins with Japanese rugby officials dwelling on a humiliating anniversary, a 145-17 defeat by the New Zealand All Blacks in the 1995 World Cup. Officials question their decision to appoint Eddie Jones, to coach ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, inspirational, motivational, emotional ...
Plot:
rugby, coaching, world championship wrestling, sport team, direction and purpose, athlete's life, rugby player, championship, ambition, athlete and trainer, competitor, determination ...
Place:
japan, brighton, new zealand, england
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When high school football player Cam Stiles loses his best friend, he decides to drop football and focus on attaining his friend's goal of running a mile in under four minutes. Cam's decision tears apart his relationship with former ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot:
track and field, grief, american football, father son relationship, family relations, guilty conscience, professional sports, high school sports, athletics, athlete and trainer, runner, rugby player ...
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Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
In rugby, there is no ace striker, there is no number four batter, so who is the star of the team? The story begins at school entrance ceremony of Kanagawa High School where Kenji Gion, a small but gutsy go-getter joins the rugby club. He joins ...
Style:
anime, captivating, entertaining, motivational, seinen
Plot:
rugby, high school, school club, championship, teamwork, sport team, athlete's life, rugby player, friendship, coming of age, competition, underdog ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three people, three extraordinary stories. All lived out within a hundred London streets.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, melancholic
Plot:
black man white woman relationship, interracial marriage, depression, taxi driver, drug dealer, criminal, multiple storylines, husband wife relationship, marital problem, life, actor, interracial romance ...
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand, Samoa
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The Orator (O Le Tulafale) is a contemporary drama about courage, forgiveness and love. Small in stature and humble, Saili lives a simple life with his beloved wife and daughter in an isolated, traditional village in the islands of Samoa. Forced to ...
Style:
touching, serious, atmospheric, realistic, stylized ...
Plot:
stepdaughter, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, estranged sister, family relations, power struggle, family crisis, farmer, plantation, redemption, social relations, hopes, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
venice
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ye Xiang Lun is a music student majoring in piano who just transferred to Tamkang, a school famous for its musically talented students, especially those who play piano. On his first day of school, he hears a mysterious melody being played, and ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, serious, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
asthmatic, asthma, true love, college, fall in love, pianist, power of love, graduation, love and romance, imaginary, changing the past or future, time travel ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s, year 1999
Place:
asia, taiwan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sean Odkin loves to dance much to his fathers distain. When the woman he loves cannot return his love Sean goes in search of the only thing that can make him whole again and that is dancing.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
brother brother relationship, dancing, father son relationship, tap dance, working class, love triangle, dancer, friendship between men, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, one night stand, dance, car thief ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1930s
Place:
australia, sydney australia, new jersey, new zealand
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager ...
Style:
inspirational, emotional, breathtaking, sad, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, stranded, cannibalism, disaster, air disaster, starvation, death, airplane accident, mountain, mountain climbing, historical event, wilderness ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1972
Place:
andes mountains, chile, uruguay, south america, antarctic ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Stéphane defers his frustration at not having had a son on his sons-in-law. So when her younger daughter decides to leave a rugby player than the idolatrous father for a doctor he can not stand, he will do everything to get his son-in-law back. His ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, family comedy, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
father daughter relationship, family relations, intervention, son in law, father daughter conflict, couple relations, love and romance, plan, romantic rivalry, love triangle, acceptance, social satire ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A 17 year-old student is forced to get off the fence he has actively sat on all his life to stand up for himself, his whanau (family) and his future in this heartwarming story of identity.
Style:
crying
Plot:
rugby, racism, student, biracial, overweight, coming of age, teenage boy, 17 year old, apartheid, demonstration, outsider, videotaping ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s
Place:
new zealand
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Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?
Style:
gothic, sexy, scary, creepy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids, teens, family outing, horror for children
Plot:
carnival, witch, boy, black magic, small town, circus, good versus evil, temptation, supernatural, youth, coming of age, librarian ...
Time:
1930s, year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place:
illinois, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Director Mickey Rose's zany send-up of teen slasher flicks features a maniacal psycho known as the Breather (played by Jerry Belson), who stalks –and murders– promiscuous students at a suburban high school. The fanatical killer's ...
Style:
parody, slasher, humorous, not serious, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleading, high school, serial killer, murder, cheerleader, psychopath, gory, dark humor, sex doll, fetishist, american football, investigation ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
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Genre: Comedy
Country: South Africa
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The Unitas u/21 rugby team hero, Wimpie Koekemoer, is offered a contract to play rugby in England. Katrien rehearses a play with autistic children, while doing everything in her power to keep Wimpie in the country. Fanie is struggling to get used to ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
rugby, high school, nerd, college campus, domineering mother, teenage life, teenage love, college, university, athlete, friendship, teamwork ...
Place:
south africa, africa
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two young friends embark on a road trip across France in a vehicle they built themselves.
Style:
sexy, road movie, humorous, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
teenage boy, friendship, coming of age, friendship between boys, road trip, best friend, school bully, erotic fantasy, insomnia, on the road, summer vacation, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When it was first released in Argentina, Pablo Trapero’s film had the highest opening box-office of all time. The key to that success is simply that The Clan is based on one of the most shocking crimes in the country’s history, the Puccio Clan ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, psychological, social ...
Plot:
murder, abduction, hostage, violence, arrest, family relations, organized crime, family reunited, father son relationship, kidnapper, kidnapping, biopic ...
Time:
year 2015, 80s
Place:
buenos aires argentina, argentina, south america
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
kitchen sink realism, rugby, widow, ambition, rise to the top, human nature, couples, introspection, christmas, male objectification, male female relationship, miner ...
Time:
year 1963
Place:
england, yorkshire, britain, northern england, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
"The Sum of Us" is an Aussie story about a father and a son both searching for love and sharing an unconventional bond. Harry, the father, is the caring and open-minded "mate" that borders on annoyance. His son Jeff ...
Style:
touching, melancholic, sentimental, emotional, lgbt cinema ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, gay interest, father son relationship, gay lead character, gay relationship, lgbt, gays and lesbians, single father, gay son, widower, looking for love ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
australia, sydney australia
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
Style:
psychological, scary, twist ending, dark, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
claustrophobia, obsession, psychology, twists and turns, school, youth, underground bunker, male nudity, danger, bunker, survival, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
wales, england
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