Horse race movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant horse race movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, serious, feel good, touching and exciting films and TV shows about / with horse race, horse, rivalry, sport, contests and competitions, racehorse, jockey, animals, race and horse trainer plots mostly in Drama, Sport and Family genres shot in USA, Australia, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as horse race: Secretariat (2010), 50 to 1 (2014), Seabiscuit (2003), Ride Like a Girl (2019), One Love (2018), Luck (2011), Hidalgo (2004), The Cup (2011), Dream Horse (2020), Racing Stripes (2005).
Best films
List of horse race movies
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: 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, 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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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: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.
Style:
uplifting, inspirational, sincere, dramatic, realistic ...
Plot:
jockey, horse race, horse, horse riding, sport, australian, female protagonist, follow your dream, father daughter relationship, family relations, rivalry, athlete's life ...
Place:
australia, melbourne australia
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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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6K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
A drama set in the world of horse racing focusing on lives of owners, jockeys, trainers and gamblers who are all tied to the same horse track.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
gambling, horse, horse race, horse trainer, contests and competitions, bet, business venture, training, owner, ambition, dishonesty, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
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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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829
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
At the heart of this true story is Damien Oliver, a young jockey who loses his only brother in a tragic racing accident, hauntingly reflecting of the way their father died 27 years earlier. After suffering through a series of discouraging defeats, ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
horse, jockey, horse race, sport, athlete's life, rise to the top, rivalry, ambition, human spirit, death of father, lifestyle, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
australia, melbourne 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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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's spent his life on a Kentucky farm amidst the sorely mistaken notion that he's a debonair thoroughbred. Once he faces the fact that his stark ...
Style:
touching, feel good, humorous, inspirational, funny ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
zebra, horse, underdog, sport, horse race, animals, children, animal life, farm, ambition, friendship, rescue ...
Place:
kentucky, new jersey, usa, san francisco
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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: Adventure, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a ...
Style:
inspirational, emotional, fairy tale, scenic, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
horse, child, boy horse relationship, shipwreck, animals, horse race, survival, coming of age, beach, storm at sea, friendship, human animal relationship ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK, South Africa, Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Born free in the American West, Black Beauty is a horse rounded up and brought to Birtwick Stables, where she meets spirited teenager Jo Green. The two forge a bond that carries Beauty through the different chapters, challenges and adventures.
Style:
sexy, sincere, unusual plot structure, psychological, captivating
Audience:
kids
Plot:
girl horse relationship, horse riding, wild horse, horse ranch, horse race, horse, animals, teenage girl, horse trainer, female protagonist, teenager, uncle niece relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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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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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, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Casey's family raises and trains race horses, and their latest undersized foal named Casey's Shadow does not seem to have a lot going for it, but may turn out to be a champion.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, emotional, sincere
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
horse, coming of age, horse race, horse trainer, family relations, against the odds, racehorse, power relations, animal life, friends, rehabilitation, sport ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new mexico, louisiana
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy, an old one and two friends, ...
Style:
stylized, exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, horse, endurance, rivalry, contests and competitions, old west, unlikely partners, civil war, horse race, cowboy, chase, ex prostitute ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, 70s
Place:
california, texas
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Fred P. Chaney receives as inheritance after the death of his mother a speaking horse that also has good knowledge about the stock-market. With the help of this horse Fred gains a lot at the stock-market of Chicago.
Style:
humorous, feel good, inspirational, light, melancholic ...
Plot:
horse race, talking animals, space, first contact, justice, adaptation, mentor, police investigation, afterlife, sexualized violence, fantasy world, weapons ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Lily's life is turned upside down when she is forced to leave her friends to spend the summer on a remote ranch with her nature-loving aunt. She is surprised to meet an unlikely group of friends and Pistachio, the horse she has an unbreakable ...
Style:
sincere, humorous, light, feel good, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, rider horse relationship, girl horse relationship, ranch, horse race, summer, teenager, transformation, adaptation, teenage life, rivalry, escapades ...
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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: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
As the unforgiving forces of nature take their toll on humans and animals, the unexpected return of snow devastates the nomad family’s livestock. 11-year old Sukbhat is forced to leave his childhood behind. Now the hopes of the family rely on the ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
horse, horse race, human animal relationship, race, rise to the top, boy, getting home, children, woman, horse riding, dead animal, snake ...
Place:
mongolia
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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: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two friends an actor and a chef discover a plot to fix a horse race and try to capitalize on it. But also have to deal with the two men who fixed it who are trying to silence them. And there's also the mob boss whom the two guys work for who ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty
Plot:
horse race, chase, partners, gangsters, gambling, dishonesty, fighting crime, odd couple, cons and scams, disorder, husband wife relationship, restaurant ...
Time:
80s
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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: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the Australian outback a family struggles to keep its farm from foreclosure. Their only hope is that their horse, Prince, will win money in a New Year's race. But when Prince is stolen the children embark on a dangerous and exciting ...
Style:
cult film
Plot:
christmas, horse, horse race, singer, thief, jockey, child in peril, race, horse thief, horse ranch, aborigine, child's point of view ...
Place:
australia
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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: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Seguito de Febbre da cavallo!
Style:
satirical, entertaining, humorous, captivating, funny ...
Plot:
gambling, money, bet, escapades, horse race, needing money, humour, money problems, friends, satire, friendship, rebirth
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562
Genre: Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An ex-con returns to his rural Ontario roots and outwits a corrupt and wealthy thoroughbred owner trying to take over a slew of local farms. Ray Dokes, a charming ex-ballplayer, returns from jail to discover the rural landscape of his childhood ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, funny
Plot:
horse, friendship, criminal heroes, vengeance, rivalry, dishonesty, addiction, gambling, ex convict, rancher, horse race, ranch ...
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Lester is a homeless shoeshine boy living in a railway station. He's got this funny knack for picking the winning horses' names out of the paper while shining shoes. When word gets around, though, everyone wants a piece of the action.
Style:
cult film, fable
Plot:
homelessness, horse race, male female relationship, train station, railway, pizza, juvenile detention, police officer, mayor, chase, train, boy ...
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