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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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Ice (2018)
Plot Summary:
Contemporary Russia. Nadya gives up her dream of becoming a champion figure skater when she is hospitalized with an injury. But then she meets Sasha, a hockey player, who decides to teach her to believe in herself and her dream again.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: motivational, touching, romantic, sentimental, melancholic, inspirational, realistic, suspenseful, mind bending, feel good
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Iron Ivan (2014)
Plot Summary:
He was called the Champion of Champions. The strength and strong-willed character Poddubniy composed legends. And 50 great fighter effortlessly overcame young athletes, and questions of honor and justice did not know compromises. And only love could put Russian Heroes on both blades.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 959
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: inspirational, thought provoking, exciting, tense, sentimental, uplifting, feel good, suspenseful, disturbing
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Ice 2 (2020)
Plot Summary:
What happens in fairy tales after the wedding of the prince and princess? Figure skater Nadia and hockey player Sasha got married and more than anything else they dream of a child. True, the price they will have to pay for this dream will be unimaginably high. After such upheavals, it seems impossible to count on a happy ending. But if you think so, you do not know anything about real tales.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, rough, suspense, realistic
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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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The Little Queen (2014)
Plot Summary:
Julie, star cyclist, is two races away from winning the World Cup. It is the culmination of years of effort. Julie loves the spotlight. Her entourage too. Encouraged by her coach and doctor, she has been doping since the age of 14. When her doctor denounces her, she manages to hush up the case, but the extent of the mess leads to abuse, lies, and treason. Caught in a gear that goes beyond her, will she succeed in finding a way out?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 579
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, semi autobiographical
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The Coach (2018)
Plot Summary:
Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: exciting, uplifting, captivating, motivational, entertaining
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Junior League (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the town of Podolsk, The Bears hockey club hires a new coach, Sergei Makeyev, a former National Hockey League player, who sets out to get the club to the Junior Hockey League and make The Bears a successful team.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, touching, exciting, entertaining, light, visually appealing, tense, feel good
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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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Tigers (2020)
Plot Summary:
Super-talented footballing prodigy Martin is bought by top club Inter Milan, aged just 16. It’s the chance of a lifetime – but at what price?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Sweden, Italy, Denmark
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Leap (2020)
Plot Summary:
After 12 years, the Chinese women's volleyball team again reached the Olympic final. The ups and downs of the Chinese women's volleyball team for more than three decades have slowly spread away.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: China
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, iconic
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Three Seconds (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story is set at the 1972 Munich Olympics where the U.S. team lost the basketball championship for the first time in 36 years. The final moments of the final game have become one of the most controversial events in Olympic history. With play tied, the score table horn sounded during a second free throw attempt that put the U.S. ahead by one. But the Soviets claimed they had called for a time out before the basket and confusion ensued. The clock was set back by three seconds twice in a row and the Russians finally prevailed at the very last. The U.S. protested, but a jury decided in the USSR’s favor and Team USA voted unanimously to refuse its silver medals. The Soviet players have been treated as heroes at home.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, inspirational, captivating, motivational
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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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Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story of the 1973 hockey season when aging legend Gordie Howe returned to the ice at the age of 44.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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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:
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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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Dovlatov (2018)
Plot Summary:
Dovlatov charts six days in the life of brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky while watching his artist friends get crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Russia, Poland, Serbia
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, melancholic, visually appealing, art house, beautiful
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Baggio: The Divine Ponytail (2021)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle biopic of the 22-year career of soccer star Roberto Baggio, including depictions of his difficult debut as a player, his deep rifts with some of his coaches, his triumph over injuries and personal discovery of Buddism.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating
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Lev Yashin. The Dream Goalkeeper (2019)
Plot Summary:
An ordinary working class boy, like all his peers, he played football day and night and dreamed of being a striker. But no matter which team he played for - in the yard, at the factory, or in the army - he was inevitably put in goal. Lanky, with long arms, he could reach the most difficult ball. His desire to play out field gave birth to a new, unique goalkeeping style.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 944
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, realistic, disturbing
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Streltsov (2020)
Plot Summary:
By the age of twenty, Eduard Streltsov has everything one can dream of: talent, fame and love. He is the rising star of Soviet football. The whole country, with bated breath, expects victory from the national team at the upcoming World Cup where Streltsov is to face the great Brazilian football player Pelé. However, two days before the departure of the team, the sportsman’s enemies manage to destroy his career. When the door to big sport seems to be closed for good, Streltsov has to re-enter the field and prove that he is a true champion who is worth everybody’s love.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, uplifting, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing, factual, exciting, sentimental, feel good
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The Great Victory (2014)
Plot Summary:
Independent feature film based on the biography of a Brazilian judo with a great victory that went beyond the mats and medals.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, captivating, emotional, serious, realistic
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Pride (2004)
Plot Summary:
The theme is strength and gallantry.Haru Satonaka is the captain of an ice-hockey team, a star athlete who stakes everything on hockey but can only consider love as a game. Aki Murase is a woman who has been waiting for her lover who went abroad two years ago. These two persons start a relationship while frankly admitting to each other that it is only a love game. …The result is the unfolding of a drama of people with their respective pasts and with their pride as individuals.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Price of Glory (2000)
Plot Summary:
An ex-boxer, living with the knowledge that his fight career was cut short by a crooked manager, channels his bitter disappointment in a single-minded quest for boxing championships for his three sons. We see them in pee-wee Silver Glove matches with dad constantly pushing them. Ten years later, they're young men, with dad as both father and manager. A professional promoter, Nick Everson, wants to sign the boys, but dad rejects those offers. Then, in expressions of their varied relationships with their father, each son makes his own decisions. Can dad ever step aside, and can the family hold together?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, serious, tense
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Rise (2022)
Plot Summary:
After emigrating to Greece from Nigeria, Vera and Charles Antetokounmpo struggled to survive and provide for their five children, while living under the daily threat of deportation. Desperate to obtain Greek citizenship but undermined by a system that blocked them at every turn, the family's vision, determination and faith lifted them out of obscurity to launch the careers of three NBA champions.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, realistic, disturbing, feel good
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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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The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend (1991)
Plot Summary:
A story about the great basketball player "Pistol" Pete Maravich when he was in the eighth grade. He plays on the varsity basketball team at Daniel High School but has some very difficult obstacles standing in his way of playing. The only support he has is from his father, retired basketball pro Press Maravich.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Rocket (2005)
Plot Summary:
In the late 1930s, a young machinist named Maurice Richard distinguished himself as a ice hockey player of preternatural talent. Although that was enough to get him into the Montreal Canadiens, his frequent injuries cost him the confidence of his team and the fans. In the face of these doubts, Richard eventually shows the kind of aggressive and skillful play that would make him one of the greatest players of all time as "The Rocket." However for all his success, Richard and his fellow French Canadians face constant discrimination in a league dominated by the English speaking. Although a man of few words, Richard begins to speak his own mind about the injustice which creates a organizational conflict that would culminate in his infamous 1955 season suspension that sparks an ethnic riot in protest. In the face of these challenges, Richard must decide who exactly is he playing for.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, sentimental, uplifting, hot
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6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain (2017)
Plot Summary:
An adrenaline seeking snowboarder gets lost in a massive winter storm in the back country of the High Sierras where he is pushed to the limits of human endurance and forced to battle his own personal demons as he fights for survival.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, rough, suspenseful, sentimental, crying, independent film
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Miracle (2004)
Plot Summary:
In 1980, the United States Ice Hockey team's coach, Herb Brooks, put a ragtag squad of college kids up against the legendary juggernaut from the Soviet Union at the Olympic Games. Despite the long odds, Team USA carried the pride of a nation yearning for a distraction from world events. With the world watching, the team rose to the occasion, prompting broadcaster Al Michaels' now famous question to the millions viewing at home: "Do you believe in miracles?" Yes!.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, factual, sincere, captivating, feel good, inspirational, emotional, realistic, motivational