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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland, Germany
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Offside (2005)
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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All About Love (2001)
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Maria is a bright and attractive but not especially responsible young woman who is used to having things go her way in life. Out of school and with no clear career path, Maria ends up taking a job putting together cushions for chairs. But after a single day on the job she quits, claiming the work hurts her hands and she'd rather start her own restaurant. As Maria plots her next move, she impulsively swipes a piece of lingerie from a store, then tries to lie her way out of the situation when she's caught. But Maria finds that words can't get her out of this bind, and soon she's in jail and dealing with much deeper trouble than she ever imagined possible.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: thought provoking
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Run for Your Life (1988)
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Major Charles Forsythe (Carradine) is a Vietnam veteran U.S. Army officer stationed near Rome. He is a brutal, if effective, commander who was "fragged" by his own men in Vietnam. When he is denied promotion because of the number of men injured during his training exercises, he takes out his anger by beating his pregnant wife Sarah (Hutton). She miscarries. On her release from the hospital, Sarah is determined to get back into shape and begins running. She meets Alan Morani (Segal) a former Olympic runner who is a paraplegic as the result of a car accident. Morani offers to coach Sarah to run in the Rome marathon, a race which her husband has won two years in a row. Sarah realizes that winning the race is the best way to avenge the death of her baby and destroy her husband's ego.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 90 min
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Dive (2022)
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Mariel is a veteran elite diver who has one last chance at the Olympic Games. However, when a terrible truth comes to light, Mariel faces her biggest personal question: Is winning her true dream?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Argentina, Mexico, USA
Duration: 95 min
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A Move of a White Queen (1972)
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The film is based on the eponymous book by Lev Kassil. Natasha is called "The White Queen", because she is the winner of many international ski competitions. Her coach is going through a midlife crisis. He makes a decision to quit his career in sports. His loyal student, Natasha, convinces him to continue being her coach for another competition.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min
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Four Minutes (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sir Roger Bannister's historic running of the sub-four-minute mile is celebrated in Four Minutes, an inspiring and respectably authentic TV movie about breaking the most famous barrier in the history of sports.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
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Amir (2016)
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Amir, a young musician retired from the scene, must face a tough decision: To stay by Ely's side, his girlfriend, during an unwanted pregnancy or Jeanette, cute lead singer of a band that will restore not only his passion for music, also for love.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Screwed (1998)
Plot Summary:
It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, controversial, manga, psycho sexual, experimental, cult film
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The Tournament (2015)
Plot Summary:
Budapest International Chess Tournament. The most likely winner: Cal Fournier (22), French champion, immature genius, socially awkward, compulsive player. But this time, an unusual 9-years-old Hungarian opponent disrupts this smooth-running routine.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, sincere, entertaining
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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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Long-Distance Running Tactics (1978)
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama, Sport, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 65 min
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The Miracle of Kathy Miller (1981)
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With the support of her parents (Sharon Gless & Frank Converse), an Arizona adolescent (Helen Hunt) overcomes severe injuries to run in a 10K race.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Fair Play (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the 1980s, Anna, a Czech sprinter, starts training for the Olympics. After she collapses during training, she learns she is being given steroids and decides to stop using them until her mother helps the coaches give them to her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, touching, serious, realistic
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Running (1979)
Plot Summary:
An Olympic hopeful marathon runner hopes his success will be the answer to his marriage woes and other personal problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
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The Straight Line (2011)
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Leila is released from prison after five years of confinement. She will meet Yannick, a young athlete who became blind after an accident. This last practice race despite his disability, but to run it must be connected by a wire to guide a person called. It offers Leila to be his guide. Through this project, they will learn to rebuild.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sincere, uplifting, serious, emotional, realistic
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Tracktown (2016)
Plot Summary:
A bright, talented and lonely long-distance runner twists her ankle as she prepares for the Olympic Trials and must do something she's never done before: take a day off.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic, romantic comedy, independent film
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Goldengirl (1979)
Plot Summary:
A neo-Nazi Doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised & Conditioned since she was a child to run in the Olympics.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: spooky, independent film
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A Shining Season (1979)
Plot Summary:
The true story of University of New Mexico track star John Baker who, dying of cancer, spent his remaining time coaching a losing girls" track team to a winning season.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Jesse Owens Story (1984)
Plot Summary:
The Jesse Owens Story is a biographical film about the black athlete Jesse Owens. Dorian Harewood plays the Olympic gold-winning athlete. The drama won a 1985 Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for two more.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags:
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Road to Victory (2007)
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A star athlete on the verge of turning pro must decide which dream to pursue while he battles his own body.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, realistic, independent film
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1 Mile To You (2017)
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After a teenager's friends die in an accident, he finds running allows him to remember them perfectly. Running, however, also brings him notoriety. He is caught between keeping the past alive and making new memories in the present.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, romantic, uplifting, captivating, sad, teen
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
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A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy's reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance runner. During his solitary runs, reveries of his life and times before his incarceration lead him to re-evaluate his privileged status as the Governor's prize runner.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: political, social, black and white, psychological, sincere, bleak, serious, realistic, non-linear, independent film
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Personal Best (1982)
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This film chronicles the relationship of two female world-class athletes. Mariel Hemingway and real-life Olympian pentathlete Patrice Donnelly play runners who train together, compete against each other and eventually become lovers. Scott Glenn plays their coach in this film that culminates with the trials for the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: sexual, erotic, tense, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, crying
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Fast Girls (2012)
Plot Summary:
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: uplifting, feel good, exciting, touching, realistic, serious
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The Long Run (2001)
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A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Marathon is a 90-k race in South Africa. An aging running coach, Barry, wants to field a winner; he's working with four men from a factory, but when he's fired to make way for a smooth, corporate type, he's at loose ends. Then he sees Christine, a Namibian immigrant who runs to forget her troubles. He offers to coach her and soon she's living at his house, following his diet and training regimen. But his single-mindedness gets to her: she wants a job and a place of her own. Plus, the man who replaced Barry likes her and wants her away from Barry. Can runner and coach (woman and man, African and European) sort out their complex relationship before the race? Written by.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: South Africa
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: uplifting, sincere, touching, feel good, serious, realistic, independent film
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The Opponent (2000)
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Patty Sullivan (Erica Eleniak) is a battered woman who decides to take charge of her life by taking boxing lessons to better protect herself when her boyfriend becomes violent. Patty soon learns she has some talent for boxing and sets her sights on competing in a professional fight. More is on the line than just the woman's title.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, serious, independent film, realistic, uplifting
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The Loneliest Runner (1976)
Plot Summary:
A teenage bedwetter overcomes the obstacles to be a champion runner.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: sad
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The Color of Money (1986)
Plot Summary:
Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and proposes a partnership. As they tour pool halls, Eddie teaches Vincent the tricks of scamming, but he eventually grows frustrated with Vincent's showboat antics, leading to an argument and a falling-out. Eddie takes up playing again and soon crosses paths with Vincent as an opponent.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: road movie, clever, realistic, talky, stylized, epic, neo noir, social, cult classic, spectacular
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Babe (1975)
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This is the life story of Babe Didrikson Zaharias, one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century, from her early Texas tomboy days to her Gold Medal triumphs at the 1932 Olympics, her remarkable career as a champion golfer, her fulfilling marriage to wrestler George Zaharias, and the final battle with the only thing tougher than she was.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Without Limits (1998)
Plot Summary:
The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to the University of Oregon where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman, later to Olympics in Munich and his early death at 24 in a car crash.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: inspirational, sincere, factual, exciting, captivating, touching, emotional, realistic, feel good, crying