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Plot Summary:
A look into the life of troubled former hockey player Brian Spencer, who got into problems both on the ice and off because of his temper. The film also has a close focus on Spencer's father, and shows how he influenced Brian's life both before and after his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Stranger I Married (2005)
Plot Summary:
The life story of Terry Evanshen, a Canadian Football League star who fell into a coma after a fatal car accident. When he wakes up, he has no recollection of his family or anything else in his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Lance et Compte (1986)
Plot Summary:
Lance et Compte is a series of Quebec téléromans revolving around a Quebec City ice hockey team. The series aired from 1986 to 1989 on the Radio-Canada network, and revival series on TQS in 2001 and on TVA from 2004 to the present. The first season was filmed in both French and English, the English version appearing on CBC Television as He Shoots, He Scores. It was the first television series to air simultaneously in English on CBC and in French on Radio-Canada. The series was scripted by Réjean Tremblay and Louis Caron for the first season, and by Tremblay and Jacques Jacob after that. Following the end of the regular series, a number of television movies continued to air into the 1990s. A new generation of the series started to air in 2001 and a movie was made in 2010.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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Why (Not) Brazil? (2004)
Plot Summary:
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Goon: Last of the Enforcers (2017)
Plot Summary:
During a pro lockout, Doug "The Thug" Glatt is injured and must choose whether to defend his team against a dangerous new enemy, or be there for his wife as she prepares to give birth to his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, humorous, funny, cult film
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Minnesota (2009)
Plot Summary:
A story of two brothers - two young hockey players.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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On the Verge of a Fever (2004)
Plot Summary:
Against the backdrop of poverty, fear and the brutal dictatorship of Haiti in 1971, ON THE VERGE OF A FEVER is about Fanfan, a 15-year-old boy who just wants to experience life for himself with his streetwise friend Gégé. Having lived a somewhat sheltered life with his protective mother, Fanfan experiences a bizarrely terrifying incident involving a Tonton-Macoute. As a result, he decides to hide out at his beautiful neighbor's house for the weekend. There, he is trapped between his fear of being caught and the fulfilling of his deepest fantasy. Based on the book "Le goût des jeunes filles" by famous Haitian novelist Dany Laferriere.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Swedish Fly Girls (1971)
Plot Summary:
A gorgeous Danish international stewardess flirts brashly with her male passengers then beds them one after another in her Copenhagen home.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, independent film
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Tiger, Blood in the Mouth (2016)
Plot Summary:
Boxing drama / romance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Argentina, Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sincere, light, captivating, erotic, crying, visually appealing
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Gas in the Veins (1970)
Plot Summary:
Two men and a woman, all rallye drivers, get too closely involved, competing in the race and in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Finland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Goon (2011)
Plot Summary:
Doug Glatt, a slacker who discovers he has a talent for brawling is approached by a minor league hockey coach and invited to join the team as the "muscle." Despite the fact that Glatt can't skate his best friend, Pat, convinces him to give it a shot, and Glatt becomes a hero to the team and their fans, until the league's reigning goon becomes threatened by Glatt's success and decides to even the score.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, entertaining, humorous, witty, sweet, not serious, light, realistic, thought provoking
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Winter Stories (1999)
Plot Summary:
An adult Martin Roy reminisces about his life in the 1966/67 school year. At fifteen years old and in his last year of junior high school, he breathed, ate and slept hockey. He collected hockey cards, played street hockey with his friends, tried skating and ice hockey for the first time in his life, but was most fascinated with his local national league team, the Montréal Canadiens, and its star player, Henri Richard. He dreamed of growing up and working for the Canadiens franchise. But a more immediate goal was to get tickets to one of their games, using M. Richard and his banker father, Hervé, as possible conduits to that goal.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Breakaway (2011)
Plot Summary:
A hockey enthusiast since 12 years of age, Toronto-based Rajvinder Singh, even went to the extent of trimming his hair, discarding his Pagri/turban, did not complete his education, incurred the wrath of his father, Darvesh, who wanted him to be involved in the family business as well as confirm and respect Sikh religion principles and values. Hoping to play professional hockey, Rajvinder, along with other fellow Sikh players, instead finds himself treated as the object of ridicule, referred to as a 'joker', by mainstream Caucasian players. Even his friends tease him and ask him to take up 'Guli Danda' and Kabaddi', while his father makes him work for Uncle Sammy as a truck driver. He is attracted to stunning law student Melissa Winters while her brother, Dan, offers to coach Rajvinder and his team. Unable to get themselves included in any team, they form their own.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, India, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, semi serious, realistic
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Skating to New York (2013)
Plot Summary:
The coming-of-age journey of 5 teenage boys who leave their small, Canadian town behind and risk skating across Lake Ontario to New York on the coldest day of the year.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, light, sincere, feel good, unusual plot structure
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Paperback Hero (1973)
Plot Summary:
A hockey player in a small town begins to lose his grip on reality, and starts to believe that he is a gunslinger in the Old West.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hockey Night (1984)
Plot Summary:
When a young girl wants to join her high school's hockey team as goalie, she meets with resistence, but also gets support, especially from the star forward of the team.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story (2010)
Plot Summary:
Chronicles the life of Don Cherry, from playing minor league hockey to coaching the NHL's Boston Bruins.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Winter Comes Early (1971)
Plot Summary:
Love story involving a Canadian professional hockey player and a hippie folk singer. Their union is tumultuous, as both try to come to terms with their differences in careers and lifestyles.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, independent film
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Net Worth (1995)
Plot Summary:
The story of the NHL's early years, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of benefits, pensions and the like.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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The Sheldon Kennedy Story (1999)
Plot Summary:
Alberta (Canada) rural farm-boy Sheldon Kennedy feels abused by dad when punished for poor performances compared to big brother Troy. being recruited for professional ice-hockey at age 14 seems an ideal way out, straight to a party animal's good life. Yet after a Vegas marriage with Jana and hearing she's pregnant, Sheldon breaks down and tells her what's eating at him for years: coach Graham James, whoa arranged for him to be transferred each time James was, sexually abused Sheldon, who fears to be laughed away as a queer and loose his only career avenue if he goes public.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags:
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The Boy Who Drank Too Much (1980)
Plot Summary:
Scott Baio plays a high school hockey player. He is well liked and well respected among his coach and teammates. What they don't know is that he is an alcoholic. His background comes from his father, who is also an alcoholic. Baio must work to stay clean and sober so he doesn't lose his position on the hockey team or the respect from his friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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The Boys (1997)
Plot Summary:
Every Monday night The Boys put on skates and leave their troubled lives behind.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, semi serious, sexy, clever, intellectual, enigmatic, feel good, unusual plot structure
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Slap Shot (1977)
Plot Summary:
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, inspirational, cult classic, exciting, feel good, cynical, hilarious, clever, realistic
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Legend No. 17 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, suspense, suspenseful, psychological
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Youngblood (1986)
Plot Summary:
A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured to show that he can fight if challenged during his stay in a Canadian minor hockey town. His on-ice activities are complicated by his relationship with the coach's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, retro, spiritual, epic, sex comedy, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, stylized
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Poor Boy's Game (2007)
Plot Summary:
Donnie Rose went to prison for beating a young man so brutally it left him handicapped for life. Nine years later, Donnie is out. He's a different man with only one place to go: back home to the same violent and racist neighborhood that created him. At the other end of town, the black community still wants revenge. The instrument of justice will be Ossie Paris, a devastatingly talented boxer who challenges Donnie to a match; a match Donnie's family and peers won't let him refuse. George Carvery has waited nine years to avenge his son's fate at the hands of Donnie. When finally they meet face to face, however, both realize they share a similar desire to overcome the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, rough, realistic, crying
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The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Plot Summary:
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: depressing, fairy tale, erotic, heartbreaking, independent film, existential, psychological, atmospheric, bleak, emotional
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Indian Horse (2017)
Plot Summary:
Saul is a great native hockey player who overcomes racism in the 1970s then ultimately becomes tempted by alcoholism.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, psychological, captivating, disturbing, retro, social, crying, tragic
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Mystery, Alaska (1999)
Plot Summary:
In Mystery, Alaska, life revolves around the legendary Saturday hockey game at the local pond. But everything changes when the hometown team unexpectedly gets booked in an exhibition match against the New York Rangers. When quirky small-towners, slick promoters and millionaire athletes come together.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, entertaining, humorous, realistic, inspirational, funny, sex comedy, cult classic, witty
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Goalie (2019)
Plot Summary:
Terry Sawchuk biopic.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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Suspicious River (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young married woman (Parker) sells her body, not just for money, to guests at the motel where she works as a receptionist.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, rough, disturbing, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual