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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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Fourth Place (2015)
Plot Summary:
Joon-ho, a 11-year-old swimmer who hopes to become an Olympic medalist, has a problem; he always records 4th place at all the swimming contests that he participates in. His mom who is more enthusiastic than himself in winning is frustrated. Hearing a rumor about a competent swim coach that other moms hush about, she stalks one of the moms for his contact and manages to hire him as Joon-ho’s personal coach. His records soon start to improve. But the badass coach who once was the most promising athlete on the national team before he had quit trains Joon-ho the only way he knows how; to use violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, 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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As One (2012)
Plot Summary:
A unified team representing the two Koreas competed at the 1991 Chiba International Table Tennis Championships. It was the first such sport team since the division of the Korean peninsula. The unified team won the group competition event, beating the front runner, China.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Rookies the Movie: Graduation (2009)
Plot Summary:
Futakotamagawa High School had a Baseball Club, but because of a fight during one of their games, they were suspended for a year from all games. Composed of student delinquents, Futakotamagawa High's new Literature teacher Kawato Koichi inspires the Baseball Club to believe in a dream goal once again. For them, it is to play at the Koshien - Japan's National High School Baseball Championship. But, Kawato Koichi and the newly reformed baseball team run into plenty of obstacles along the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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Champs (2018)
Plot Summary:
A professional coach has under his wing the team that is expected to qualify and play the FIFA U-17 World Cup. A fictionalized drama inspired by the story of Jesús Ramírez, the mexican coach.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Baseball Girl (2019)
Plot Summary:
A girl baseball player who is about to graduate from high school will try to enter the professional baseball world forbidden to women.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Jump Ashin! (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ashin has spent his enitre life training for the national team in gymnastics. His mother believes his work will amount to nothing and asks his high school coach to take him off the team. Ashin then quits the sport entirely. He quickly falls in with wrong crowd and finds himself in a lot of trouble. Ashin leaves his small hometown of Yilan. Will he ever get back to the sport that he loves?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Notorious Nick (2021)
Plot Summary:
Nick Newell, a one-armed MMA fighter gets a rare chance to fight for the lightweight championship. He strives to win for himself and all the other people in the world with physical challenges.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, 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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Back in the Day (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young boxer is taken under the wing of a mob boss after his mother dies and his father is run out of town for being an abusive alcoholic.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 856
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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Under the Stadium Lights (2021)
Plot Summary:
After a crushing defeat ended their prior season, everyone counted the Abilene Eagles out of title contention. Facing doubts and personal challenges both on and off the field, it takes the guidance of their team chaplain and a surrogate father figure for the players to realize what they can achieve when they stand united.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Street Dreams (2009)
Plot Summary:
Derrick Cabrera, like all skateboarders, dreams of being sponsored one day. He has all the talent in the world to make it happen but some major roadblocks to overcome before he can make the dream a reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, sincere, disturbing, rough, realistic, semi serious
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Mickey (2004)
Plot Summary:
Best-selling author John Grisham deviates from his usual literary thrillers with this winning film that stars Harry Connick Jr. as Tripp Spence, a widower who goes on the run from the IRS with his 12-year-old baseball-phenomenon son, Derrick (Shawn Salinas). They assume new identities and flee to Las Vegas, where Derrick, now known as Mickey, joins a team that makes it to the Little League World Series. But will fame give away his true identity?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating
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The Prize Fighter (2003)
Plot Summary:
After a life of hard knocks and wrong turns, boxer Ed Jones gets a second chance at fulfilling his life long dream of a World Boxing Championship. With the help of veteran promoter, Arliss King and the guidance of a former champ, Ed embarks on the come back of a lifetime. When Ed starts winning and with his popularity soaring, he draws the attention of an unscrupulous fight promoter, White Ferguson. Although tempted by promises of big money and boxing glory, Ed makes a decision to remain loyal to Arliss. His dream in sight, Ed is on top of the world and at the top of his game.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, psychological, exciting, inspirational, serious
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A Mile in His Shoes (2011)
Plot Summary:
Based on the book “The Legend of Mickey Tussler”, this film follows the story of eighteen-year-old Mickey Tussler, who lives on a farm with his father and mother and who has Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism. But he can throw apples at an amazing speed. When a chance meeting occurs with the baseball manager of the semi-pro team the River Rats, from Clayton, Ohio, Mickey gets a chance to pitch for the team and to prove to his father he can do more than live hidden away on the family farm, taking care of his pig Oscar (http://www.christianfilmdatabase.com/).
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 771
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: christian film, sincere, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Green Flash (2008)
Plot Summary:
At the ripe old age of 30, Cameron Day has given up his chances at pro-basketball fame and settled into an aimless life. A chance encounter with a beautiful woman lands him smack in the middle of Southern California's pro beach volleyball scene. A naturally talented true athlete, he seems destined for sports stardom once again until his old demons start creeping in, threatening his chances at success.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, inspirational
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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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A Shot at Glory (2000)
Plot Summary:
Scottish second division football team Kilnockie is taken over by American Pete Cameron. The new owner puts pressure on manager Gordon McLeod to improve the fortunes of the team, and hires first division player Jackie McQuillan.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, inspirational, captivating, cult classic, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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The Junction Boys (2002)
Plot Summary:
Tom Berenger leads an outstanding cast in this bone-crunching dramatization of legendary college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's debut at Texas A&M in the summer of 1954. The often unnerving story finds Bryant ducking the school's good ol' boy network of rich, influential alumni by spiriting his new team away to a makeshift training base in a tiny town called Junction. There, Bryant runs the equivalent of a POW camp, brutalizing an oversized, underdeveloped bunch of rowdy young men and tormenting those who seek medical attention for cracked spines and deadly heat exhaustion. Berenger delivers a warts-and-all performance as the vulgar, monstrous, yet much-respected Bryant, and the direction by seasoned television vet Mike Robe is brisk and almost explosively charged. Whatever one thinks of Bryant's punishing methods, the film does not flinch from telling its powerful tale. --Tom Keogh.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 979
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, sincere, captivating, realistic
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Forever Strong (2008)
Plot Summary:
Rick Penning lives life just like he plays rugby; fast, hard-hitting and intense. When life on the edge lands him in jail, prison ward Marcus Tate offers him a chance to get back in the game by playing for his rival, Highland Rugby. Reluctantly Rick joins the team where he must adopt the grueling training schedule that Coach Gelwix enforces, or finish out the season behind bars.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, inspirational, motivational, touching, disturbing, rough, spiritual, emotional, entertaining
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From the Rough (2013)
Plot Summary:
The coach of a women's swim team parlays her success into an opportunity to build her school's men's golf team.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: uplifting, captivating, touching, feel good, serious, inspirational, sincere, realistic
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A Season on the Brink (2002)
Plot Summary:
"A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers" is based on the best-selling book by John Feinstein. The movie chronicles Indiana's 1985-86 season, when Knight granted Feinstein unprecedented access to the team and its practices, meetings, and huddles.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, realistic, captivating
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Believe in Me (2006)
Plot Summary:
In a conservative small town, a young man's wish to coach high school basketball are tweaked by a school board decision that makes him the new coach of the girls' team.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, inspirational, spiritual
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American Underdog (2021)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Kurt Warner, who went from a stockboy at a grocery store to a two-time NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion, and Hall of Fame quarterback.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: inspirational, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, christian film, emotional
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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
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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
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Crooked Arrows (2012)
Plot Summary:
A native-American lacrosse team makes its way through a prep school league tournament.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, uplifting, feel good, serious, realistic, independent film, vintage
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When the Game Stands Tall (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young coach turns a losing high school football program around to go undefeated for 12 consecutive seasons.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: uplifting, captivating, exciting, sincere, serious, christian film, inspirational, sentimental, feel good, historical drama