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Plot Summary:
Holly's Heroes is a children's drama series produced as a collaboration between the Nine Network in Australia and TVNZ in New Zealand. It was produced as a series of 26 episodes and first screened in 2005.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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MaveriX (2022)
Plot Summary:
Six young motocross riders come together to form a team, to make the national titles, or crash out trying. But the biggest win of all might be the friends they make for life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Thumping Spike (2016)
Plot Summary:
A volleyball coach and his players aim for success during which they develop stronger bond and friendship for each other as well as teamwork. This youthful story shows sportsmanship and heart thumping romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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The Crossover (2023)
Plot Summary:
The coming-of-age story of basketball prodigy twins Filthy (aka Josh) and JB who learn that even though they have so much that binds them together growing up is all about discovering what makes us unique.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
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The Warriors (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Warriors is set in the world of Australian Rules Football. It explores the elite world of professional sport through the eyes of two new recruits - plucked from obscurity to fame and fortune - and two established players as they are thrown together in a share house in Melbourne.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Jamie Johnson (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jamie Johnson is a boy with a dream. A boy who lives and breathes football. Join Jamie with his struggle to settle into a new school, search for his absent father and make the all-important football team.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Family, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Hot Shot (2008)
Plot Summary:
Hot Shot is a Taiwanese drama starring Jerry Yan, Show Luo, and Wu Chun of Fahrenheit. It was produced by Comic International Productions and directed by Lin He Long. It was first broadcast in Taiwan on free-to-air China Television from 27 July 2008 to 9 November 2008, on Sundays at 22:00 to 23:30 and cable TV Gala Television Variety Show/CH 28 on 2 August 2008 to 15 November 2008, every Saturday at 21:30 to 23:00. This show was also broadcast in Hong Kong, China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia and Philippines.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Sport
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Marked in the Restricted Area (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two best friends and former basketball players are trying to re-establish their once successful basketball club. A nostalgic and romantic comedy about second chances, and about friendship between a Serb and a Croat.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Serbia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining, buddy comedy
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Dream Team 1935 (2012)
Plot Summary:
A story about the Latvian basketball team, which won the first-ever European Championships in 1935 and its enthusiastic head coach Valdemars Baumanis.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Latvia, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Big Shot (2021)
Plot Summary:
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 of his career and reputation.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Raising the Bar (2016)
Plot Summary:
16-year-old Kelly quits an elite gymnastics program and moves to Australia. To help out a new friend and show up an old rival she re-enters competitive gymnastics, she'll have to find a way to move forward while making amends with her past.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, captivating, visually appealing
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Heart of Champions (2021)
Plot Summary:
During their last year at an Ivy League college in 1999, a group of friends and crew teammates' lives are changed forever when an army vet takes over as coach of their dysfunctional rowing team.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, inspirational
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Swimming for Gold (2020)
Plot Summary:
Young elite swimmer Claire is sent to Australia to coach a boys swimming team, where she must overcome an old rival and a secret fear to save the swimming camp from closing.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 613
Genere: Family, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, sincere
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Junior League (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the town of Podolsk, The Bears hockey club hires a new coach, Sergei Makeyev, a former National Hockey League player, who sets out to get the club to the Junior Hockey League and make The Bears a successful team.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, touching, exciting, entertaining, light, visually appealing, tense, feel good
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Swagger (2021)
Plot Summary:
Explore the world of AAU basketball in the nation’s capital, and the players, their families and coaches who walk the fine line between dreams and ambition, and opportunism and corruption.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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The Pee Wee 3D: The Winter That Changed My Life (2012)
Plot Summary:
When his wife dies, Carl offers his only son, Janeau, 12, a fresh start. They move to Mont Saint-Hilaire, where Janeau makes friends with Julie, a talented Pee-Wee hockey goalie determined to compete in the annual World Tournament held in Quebec. She convinces Janeau to join the team, but he has a hard time being accepted by the rest of the players, including Joey, the star player who has to endure constant pressure from his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: inspirational, light, captivating, entertaining
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Forever the Moment (2008)
Plot Summary:
A look at the Korean women's handball team and their journey to the 2004 Summer Olympics. Their path was far from flowery, and they must overcome many obstacles before they can head over to compete.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Amateur (2018)
Plot Summary:
14-year-old basketball phenom Terron Forte has to navigate the under-the-table world of amateur athletics when he is recruited to an elite NCAA prep school.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: inspirational, captivating, semi serious, emotional, disturbing
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Hang Time (1995)
Plot Summary:
Hang Time is an American teen sitcom about a fictional Indiana high school's boys' basketball team "Deering" with one female player, that aired from 1995–2000. It aired on Saturday mornings on NBC as part of the network's TNBC morning block. It was created by Troy Searer, Robert Tarlow, and Mark Fink. The show lasted six seasons, during which the cast was changed almost in its entirety. Only two cast members stayed with the show throughout its entire run, similar to Saved by the Bell: The New Class.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 934
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, teen comedy
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15/Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
15/Love was a Canadian-produced television series that revolves around the lives of aspiring young tennis players at the Cascadia Tennis Academy. The show was created by Karen Troubetzkoy and Derek Schreyer, and was filmed in the city of Montreal during the summer. 15/Love first aired on the television channel YTV on September 6, 2004.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, France
Duration:
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Run! T High School Basketball Club (2018)
Plot Summary:
Yoichi plays basketball at his junior high and is capable. He is granted a scholarship and attends a high school with a superlative basket team. Instead of welcoming the boy the students there decide to bully and harass the new player leading Yoichi to a new high school and basketball team. Expectedly, the basketball team is not the best. The team will have to soon play against the team from the school Yoichi was in before.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative
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ROOKIES (2008)
Plot Summary:
Koichi Kawato is the new Japanese Literature teacher at the ill-famed Futakotamagawa high school, whose baseball club is composed of thugs and bullies who have been suspended for a year from all school competitions, for causing a brawl during an official match. The newly appointed teacher finds that the club members left are only interested in women, smoking and doing nothing until, under Kawato's guidance, they discover their dream of going to the Koshien high school baseball tournament. However, the road to Koshien is far from easy as many obstacles await them.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing
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So Awkward (2015)
Plot Summary:
A sitcom about three very academically bright, but socially awkward 13 year old girls, trying to make sense of life, boys and fitting in. While other girls their age are going to parties, netball practice and sleepovers, Lily, Martha and Jas are busy with chess club, homework and Friday nights in watching documentaries.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining, sitcom, comedy drama
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Blue Water High (2005)
Plot Summary:
Blue Water High is an Australian television drama series, broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on ABC1 and on Austar/Foxtel Nickelodeon channel in Australia and on various channels in many other countries. Each season follows the lives of a young group of students at Solar Blue, a high-performance surf academy where several lucky 16-year-olds are selected for a 12-month-long surfing program on Sydney's northern beaches. There are three series in Blue Water High. The first two series were screened in 2005 and 2006 and the producers did not intend to create a third series. However, due to popular demand by fans, they relented and made one more series with only Kate Bell returning in a main role. Series three ended with the closure of Solar Blue, indicating that the show would most likely not continue.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, serious
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The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers (2021)
Plot Summary:
In present day Minnesota, the Mighty Ducks have evolved from scrappy underdogs to an ultra-competitive, powerhouse youth hockey team. After 12-year-old Evan is unceremoniously cut from the Ducks, he and his mom Alex set out to build their own ragtag team of misfits to challenge the cutthroat, win-at-all-costs culture of competitive youth sports.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, uplifting, teen comedy
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Go!Goal!Fighting! (2016)
Plot Summary:
The play tells the story of a group of high school football teenagers who struggle all the way through the school football league under the guidance of "underdog coach" mooch.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating
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Friday Night Lights (2006)
Plot Summary:
Friday Night Lights is an American drama television series based around a high school football team situated in Texas. The series takes place in the fictional town of Dillon: a small, close-knit community in rural Texas. Particular focus is given to team coach Eric Taylor and his family, Tammy and Julie. The show uses this small town backdrop to address many issues facing contemporary American culture, including family values, child development, life lessons, school funding, racism, drugs, abortion and lack of economic opportunities.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, sentimental, serious, suspenseful, mysterious, dramatic, grindhouse, teen, light hearted
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Out There (2003)
Plot Summary:
Out There is an Australian comedy-drama series following the trials and tribulations of an American high school boy named Reilly who moves to Australia from Connecticut as his father flees the authorities. He stays with his aunt and uncle who are the owners of a nature reserve and veterinary clinic.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, serious, realistic
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Sunset Park (1996)
Plot Summary:
A white school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined black high school basketball team and turns them into a winning team.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: hood, humorous, grim, sincere, touching, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious, funny
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Going to the Mat (2004)
Plot Summary:
Jace Newfield has a problem. Besides being blind and being the new kid at school, his problem is that the kids at his new school thinks he's a jerk. Jace has to find a way to be accepted into his new school. Joining the wrestling team just might work.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Hoosiers (1986)
Plot Summary:
High school basketball is king in small-town Indiana, and the 1954 Hickory Huskers are all hope and no talent. But their new coach -- abrasive, unlikable Norman Dale -- whips the team into shape ... while also inciting controversy.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: inspirational, emotional, realistic, exciting, sincere, captivating, entertaining, independent film, scary, motivational