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Plot Summary:
Racing is in Alex Johnstone's (Mircea Monroe) blood. It was her father s life and it ultimately caused his death so her uncle Bill (Dwier Brown), who runs the local speedway, is determined not to lose his niece the way he lost his brother. But Alex is determined to prove to Bill, to the world, and especially to herself that she has what it takes to be the best in a traditionally male-dominated sport. And when she meets up with handsome professional racecar driver Darryl Sands (Justin Guarini), the emotional stakes are raised even higher. Will Alex crash and burn or can she carry on her dad s legacy and make her dreams come true?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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Motocross Kids (2004)
Plot Summary:
Evan Reed is the best motocross coach in the country. After leading his daughter Callie to the national championships, he decides to set his sights on a more personal challenge: saving a local dirt track from an evil biker gang. When Evan's best rider injuries himself, a surprising substitute teaches Evan and the kids that anything is possible.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: semi serious, captivating, light, feel good, independent film, realistic
Similar in 81%
Motocrossed (2001)
Plot Summary:
Motocrossed! is a 2001 Disney Channel Original Movie (based on the Shakespeare play Twelfth Night), about a girl named Andrea Carson who loves motocross, despite the fact that her father finds her unsuited for the sport, being that she is "just a girl". When her twin brother Andrew breaks his leg just before a big race, their father is forced to go to Europe to find a replacement rider. In the meantime, Andrea secretly races in Andrew's place with her mother's help.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating, romantic, scenic, teen, realistic
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The Winning Season (2004)
Plot Summary:
THE WINNING SEASON tells the story of a legendary baseball player's struggle to choose between the love of his life and his love of the game. In the film, 12 year-old baseball fanatic Joe Soshack finds a mint condition Honus Wagner baseball card that magically takes him back to the 1909 World Series.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, touching
Similar in 82%
The Circuit (2008)
Plot Summary:
Al Shines, former king of the US race car track circuit, has a hard time starting his own team, once he's fired by his sponsor Robin Cates. Robin hired Al's immature daughter Kylie Shines instead. She resents Al's inevitable 'absence' as a widowed father, as well as the reigning champion, equally young but professionally vetted Kid Walker. Kylie tries to prove herself against Kid while having an on-off affair with him. Cates's marketing strategy dictates his intentions to manipulate Walker and both Shines racers.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, captivating, melancholic, teen
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Lady Driver (2020)
Plot Summary:
When a rebellious teen embarks on a solo summer journey to connect with her roots, she finds herself in a new world, geared up for the ride of her life, and discovers she had the drive in her all along.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, serious, suspense, realistic, stylized, intense
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One Hit from Home (2012)
Plot Summary:
After suffering a career ending knee injury, pro-baseball superstar Jimmy Easton (Dave Stone) returns to a place he has not been in a very long time....home. Here, Jimmy confronts dark memories from a tragic past as he tries to make peace with a life he once left behind. Things take an unexpected turn when he is forced back into the world of baseball as the coach of an underachieving college team. Coach's Jimmy's rocky relationship with Brandon Elliot (Johnny Meier), the team's only star, challenges both of them to deal with their similarly troubled pasts (intriguefilms.com).
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, captivating, christian film, uplifting
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Landspeed (2002)
Plot Summary:
Two teams are in a heated race for the money and the honor that comes with breaking the land speed world record.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: semi serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Au Pair 3: Adventure in Paradise (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Caldwells take a family trip to Puerto Rico where their father is also securing a secret business deal, while the kids find their own paths. Eight years have passed since the events of Au Pair, and newly graduated as his high school's valedictorian, Alexander Caldwell joins his visiting sister, college freshman Katie and her roommate Ariana on a family summer vacation with father Oliver and stepmother Jenny. Oliver and Jenny's current nanny declines to join them and the over-worked parents/executives must take care of their newborn baby Sarah in Puerto Rico. Amidst corporate scheming by the young company CFO Walter Hausen, who is planning a takeover of Oliver's company CCI Tekhausen (formed in Au Pair II), Oliver and Jenny must contend with bridging the generation gap with the family, new career motivations and the romances of their 'newly reformed' prankster kids.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Yankles (2009)
Plot Summary:
About Charlie Jones, a washed up, ex major league ballplayer, and how he gets a second chance at life and love by managing a Jewish, orthodox yeshiva baseball team.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, independent film
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Slam Dunk Ernest (1995)
Plot Summary:
Ernest P. Worrell becomes a basketball star after an angel bearing an uncanny resemblance to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gives him a pair of magic sneakers.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious
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The Minis (2007)
Plot Summary:
Dwarfs playing basketball... with Dennis Rodman.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic
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Home Team (1998)
Plot Summary:
Henry Butler (Steve Guttenberg) is a professional athlete with a little Pete Rose in him. His athletic interests go beyond the playing field and into the gambling dens. Convicted for his addiction, the soccer player is assigned to community service at a children's home as a condition of his parole. The home attempts to exploit his soccer skills by forming a team. Butler takes no interest, though, until the home burns down and the team begins playing for their homes instead of personal pride or a payoff.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, family comedy
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A Second Chance (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young girl and her coach overcome adversity to make their way into the National Australian Gymnastics Squad.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, inspirational, captivating, touching, serious
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Soccer Dog: European Cup (2004)
Plot Summary:
Soccer Dog: European Cup opens with the titular hero, Kimble, escaping the clutches of an evil scientist, bent on performing animal experiments. Our plucky canine hero then falls into the hands of Zack (Jake Thomas), an American boy who's been brought to Scotland after the death of his mother to be reunited with the father he never knew, Brian (Nick Moran). After a bumpy introduction, father and son eventually connect by playing soccer together, and when the unusually nimble Kimble storms onto the field one day, their lives change forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating
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Home Run Showdown (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two little league teams take on their coaches' sibling rivalry, and end up doing battle in a place the baseball world never expected: in the outfield of the Home Run Derby.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, crying
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Flicka: Country Pride (2012)
Plot Summary:
Flicka and Toby help out a struggling stable owner and her teenage daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, semi serious, realistic, light, sincere, sentimental
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Boys Club (2001)
Plot Summary:
Sent to San Francisco to spend the summer with his aunt, teenager Mario Vandetti makes fast friends with a group of neighborhood kids and encouraged by a caring priest they soon form a basketball team, becoming contenders in a city tournament.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching
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Safe at Home! (1962)
Plot Summary:
A Florida boy (Bryan Russell) tells his Little League buddies that his father knows two New York Yankees (Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris).
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Tiger Town (1983)
Plot Summary:
Alex believed in his baseball hero Billy Young. When Billy's performance struggled, Alex's friends began to doubt Alex; and Billy began to doubt himself. Alex wants to prove to his friends, to Billy, and to himself that believing in someone can make the difference.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, uplifting, touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 77%
Underdogs (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set in rural Ohio, the birthplace of football, UNDERDOGS is the story of a small-town high school football team destined to play their cross-town rival, a perennial powerhouse, while standing up for an entire community.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, realistic, captivating, light, serious
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Hometown Legend (2002)
Plot Summary:
A teenage drifter finds an opportunity to turn his life around when he joins a high-school football program with a hard-nosed coach.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, serious, realistic, independent film, sincere
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Full-Court Miracle (2003)
Plot Summary:
Full-Court Miracle is a 2003 Disney Channel Original Movie. It premiered on November 23, 2003. Inspired by the true story of University of Virginia basketball star Lamont Carr, the film centers on a group of young Jewish basketball players who search for a coach to help them out of a slump. The main character Alex Schlotsky is inspired by the true story of Alex Barbag and Chad Korpeck.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Finding Buck McHenry (2000)
Plot Summary:
When an 11 year old boy gets cut from his Little League baseball team, he sets out to form his own team.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, uplifting, realistic, non-linear, semi serious
Similar in 78%
Virginia's Run (2002)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl, trying to come to grips with the death of her mother in a horse-riding accident, nurtures the foal of her mother's horse.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, independent film
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Kart Racer (2003)
Plot Summary:
14-year-old Watts Davies is estranged from his dad, a former International Karting Federation (IKF) champion. Watts's resolve to race in the upcoming IKF Regional Championships rekindles their relationship as they pursue the dream together.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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The Town That Banned Christmas (2006)
Plot Summary:
The competition heats up at the annual Greenlawn Christmas Decorating Contest when Norbert Bridges moves to town and stirs up trouble with the reigning champion Donnie Manning. But when the town outlaws Christmas after things get out of control it s up to the feuding neighbors to save Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, entertaining, captivating, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Grand Champion (2002)
Plot Summary:
'Grand Champion' weaves the tale of a spunky young boy named Buddy and his prize-winning calf, Hokey, as they climb from the underdog position and up through the ranks of several Texas stock shows to ultimately win the coveted title of Grand Champion. People from all walks of life help Buddy and Hokey make their way across Texas by cheering them on to a toe-tapping surprise ending. Written by Sujit R. Varma.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous
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Short Track (2008)
Plot Summary:
Carolinian Blake Beckett (Pepper Sweeney), the son of a stock car racing legend, is a 4-time short track racing champion. Blake never made it to the speedways of the National Cup Racing circuit, but surely he could still have a shot? The daily life experiences of Blake's family and crew are exposed through unique characters that work and play through the weeks that culminate in 120 mph Saturday nights.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, exciting, independent film
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Never Too Young to Dream (2001)
Plot Summary:
A group of kids have a dream: to play a football championship and to win. Their dream is going to be fulfilled by Don Pepe, an old guy with lots of expectations for his kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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The Final Season (2007)
Plot Summary:
True story of Kent Stock, who in the early 90's, gives up a job and ditches his wedding plans to take over as head coach as the Norway High School baseball team. Kent must win over his players and convince them and himself that he can fill their former coach's shoes and that they can go out winners. In the summer of 1991 Norway High's baseball tradition ended on a triumphant but sombre note.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic, historical drama, serious, captivating, emotional, independent film