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Plot Summary:
An ex-cricketer struggling to make ends meet, wants to fulfill his child's wish of getting an Indian jersey but in the process comes face to face with his heroic past and is forced to decide if he will rise to the occasion and become a symbol of hope or continue to live a life as a loser?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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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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Messi (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers fight the odds to make their fathers dream come true and they lose much more in the bargain. The film is on street soccer where every kid dreams to be a Messi and to live the dream they are willing to go beyond the distance.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Sport
Country: India, UK
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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My Brother... Nikhil (2005)
Plot Summary:
Famous swimmer Nikhil Kapoor (Suri) deals with the repercussions of announcing the fact that he has HIV/AIDS.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, sexual, sexy, queer cinema, 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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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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Life After You (2022)
Plot Summary:
A suburban family struggles with the death of their 19 year-old son, following an overdose of heroin that was laced with fentanyl. The film explores the question of who and what is responsible for this tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, 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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A Father's Legacy (2020)
Plot Summary:
On the run and bleeding a young man ends up at a pond house where he meets an old man (Tobin Bell) and holds him hostage in his own home. As the days pass and the secrets about their past are revealed, they learn that they might not have been looking for each other...but they may have been brought together for a reason.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Eagle and the Albatross (2020)
Plot Summary:
When an orphaned half Korean girl finds herself in small town America with her only living relative, she seeks out a mentor to help with the only things she loves - golf. The best player in town, the widowed optometrist, takes her under his wing, sending them on a journey to face their fear of losing loved ones and their game. The only problem is, he has three months to live.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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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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The Name is Legend (2017)
Plot Summary:
Tarik Aksoy who once was a legend in basketball tries to make life work after his wife passing away. His daughters Melis and Zeynep.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Turkey
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating
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Blast Beat (2020)
Plot Summary:
After their family emigrates from Colombia during the summer of ‘99, a metalhead science prodigy and his deviant younger brother do their best to adapt to new lives in America.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Joji (2021)
Plot Summary:
Joji, an engineering dropout and the youngest son of a rich family lives with his aspirations of becoming super wealthy. Driven by greed and blind ambition, he decides to execute his plans following an unexpected event in the family.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Broke (2016)
Plot Summary:
A disgraced sports star and gambling addict attempts to turn his life around with the support of his number one fan.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Flesh and Blood (2017)
Plot Summary:
Mixing fiction and reality, filmmaker Mark Webber tells the story of a man who returns home from prison and attempts to rebuild his life in his impoverished Philadelphia neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, realistic, disturbing
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Dark Was the Night (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the aftermath of tragedy, a woman and her teenage son must forge into uncharted territory in order to move on with their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Up Among the Stars (2018)
Plot Summary:
Víctor is a film director who is overcome by his own misfortunes. He is an alcoholic, unemployed and terribly depressed, largely because of the death of his wife. However, Victor is still the best in one thing: telling fantastic stories to his nine-year-old son, Ingmar. These stories are each of the scripts he dreams of directing in the future, when he gathers all the necessary resources. Victor and Ingmar share a present full of sadness and precariousness, but also full of robots and locations of films they have seen together. Despite forming a great team, their problems will multiply when others begin to question their role as a father.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Memories of Summer (2016)
Plot Summary:
The late 1970s. It's summer in a small provincial town. Twelve-year-old Piotrek has a very strong bond with his mother. While his father is away, his mother starts going out almost every night. Their simple and clear relationship starts to get complicated.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Gravedigger's Wife (2021)
Plot Summary:
Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son, Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery to treat a chronic kidney disease. Guled is already working hard as a gravedigger to make ends meet.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France, Somalia, Qatar
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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After This Our Exile (2006)
Plot Summary:
After his mother flees the family home, a son turns to thieving in order to support his father, an abusive sort who is addicted to gambling.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic
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Putham Pudhu Kaalai (2020)
Plot Summary:
Putham Pudhu Kaalai brings together 5 of the most celebrated directors in Tamil cinema - Sudha Kongara, Gautham Menon, Suhasini Mani Ratman, Rajiv Menon, and Karthik Subbaraj to create Amazon Prime Video's first Indian anthology film.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Resisting Life (2006)
Plot Summary:
Mexico City, 1960. Aurelia lives happily with her family. Just before the birth of her third daughter, her husband dies in an accident. Years later, Leonor, the oldest daughter, has quit her studies to help her mother support the household. Beatriz, immersed in her music, lets life slip her by like a strange melody. Adolescent Nadia has only one interest in life: to seek new experiences. Aurelia starts to lose her sensibility to pain, and the family relationships become so alienated that they begin to disintegrate like the house they live in.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, surreal
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Not on My Watch (2017)
Plot Summary:
A single mother gets entangled in a web of lies to protect her sons.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Ours (2007)
Plot Summary:
An ex-boxer Baldev Choudhary (Dharmendra) has had a stain in his boxing career. He wanted to wash it with his son Angad's (Sunny Deol) success, but times were hard and a financial crunch kept him from achieving this dream. Though Angad pulled through fine, Baldev never forgot who ruined his chance to wash the stain. An opportunity strikes Baldev in the form of a T.V. Show. He trains a local boy to get into this media hyped boxing show, but is ditched for a better coach at the last minute. Baldev's younger son Karan (Bobby Deol) has just launched his first music album. Realizing his father is in crises of his life, he gives up his dream of a musical career to get into the game of boxing.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, emotional, realistic
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Iqbal (2005)
Plot Summary:
This is all about chasing your dreams, no matter what the obstacles. The story involves a young deaf and dumb boy who is crazy about cricket.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: realistic, uplifting, inspirational, captivating, semi serious, motivational, light, entertaining, cult classic
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Kai Po Che! (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three friends growing up in India at the turn of the millennium set out to open a training academy to produce the country's next cricket stars.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: inspirational, emotional, realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking, enigmatic, feel good, entertaining, social
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Uyare (2019)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring pilot fights for her future -- and justice -- after surviving an acid attack from her abusive boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Religion (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story is based in Banaras and is about a Hindu Priest Chaturvedi (Pankaj Kapoor) who follows the scriptures to practice Hindu religion. When a child is abandon by a woman and brought in his house by his daughter - after initial hesitation but due to requests from his wife (Supriya Pathak) - the family adapts the child; only to know after 4 years that the child is a Muslim. The family gives away the child and Chaturvedi engulfs himself in the purification process to cleanse his body, mind and soul due to contact with a Muslim soul. By the time, Chaturvedi thinks he is fully purified – the child reappears – seeking refuge, due to Hindu- Muslim riots. This is the time Chaturvedi finally realizes that the true religion is - religion where humans help humans – humanity.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, christian film, spiritual, art film, thinking, touching, serious
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M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on the life of Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team, Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 184 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, captivating, realistic, sentimental, inspirational, feel good, patriotic, cult classic, fast
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M.K.B.K.M. (2013)
Plot Summary:
Harry is an industrialist who loves his daughter Bijlee, and the bond they share with Harry's man friday, Matru. Bijlee's plan to wed the son of a politician, however, brings twists and turns in the lives of Matru, Bijlee and Mandola.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, offbeat, independent film, realistic, semi serious
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