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Plot Summary:
Growing up in Las Vegas, Danny and Melissa meet at age eight and are destined to become life long friends. During their teen years they cling to each other for love and security but as they grow older their lives take different paths. Danny fills the void in his heart with his passion and love for America's favorite pastime. While Melissa, filled with the insecurities of her youth, struggles to find the strength to pursue her childhood dreams. Although apart, their lives are forever connected. Like a glorious seven game world series, "The Road Home" is a story of imperishable hope, courage, faith, love and coming home.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Action, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, serious, realistic, sincere
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Brother (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers fight to escape a violent and poor neighborhood in Caracas by playing soccer. Daniel wishes to play professionally while Julio supports the family with dirty money. The opportunity of a lifetime comes when a talent scout invites them to the Caracas Football Club. The boys' mother dies in a shootout forcing each brother to decide what it is more important to them:family, revenge, or achieving their dreams.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, touching, realistic, serious, sincere
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Clubhouse (2004)
Plot Summary:
For the first time, Pete Young takes a risk - perhaps the only risk of his young life - when he applies for and lands his dream job as a batboy for the New York Empires. The problem is that his single mother, Lynne has no idea what he's up to. Until now, he's been the golden boy while his rebellious older sister, Betsy, has always been in the doghouse. Pete attends a strict Catholic high school where he hangs out with his best friend, Mike, who hopes to cash in on his friend's new position in life. On the job, Pete becomes a member of a new family that includes Conrad Dean, the team's captain and star third baseman and one of the boy's all-time idols, who takes on the role of an older brother. Also in the clubhouse are Pete's boss, Lou Russo, a gruff but fair equipment manager who becomes a much-needed father figure; Carlos Tavares, a rookie who believes that Pete is his good luck charm, and Jose Marquez, the Empires' territorial head batboy. Pete is over the moon at being part of his favorite team but he must still balance life at home and life in the big leagues as he faces the moral dilemmas and curve balls that are thrown his way.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: feel good, serious, realistic, captivating
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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
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Aryan: Unbreakable (2006)
Plot Summary:
Aryan is the college champion in boxing. He is training under Ranveer Singh in order to achieve his dream: winning the national championship. His girlfriend Neha supports him unconditionally and he relies heavily upon her. However, after his life turns unexpectedly into another direction, he gives up boxing and marries instead. He becomes a father and takes up a job as a sports commentator. Despite this, he is not happy. When Ranveer Singh offers him a chance to get back into the ring, Aryan accepts. However, his wife leaves him and he start his journey to reattain is dream and his love.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, realistic, tense
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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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Go Figure (2005)
Plot Summary:
Katelin Kingsford, an Olympic hopeful figure skater wants to train with a Russian figure skating coach. In order to go to go to the school that Natasha is at, Katelin gets a scholarship playing on the girls hockey team.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, teen, realistic
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America Brown (2004)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age drama that centers on a young quarterback from West Texas, a priest in New York, and the two women in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, sincere, contemplative, independent film
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Carman: The Champion (2001)
Plot Summary:
Former champion boxer Orlando Leone (Carmen) is "The Preacher" at an inner-city youth center. Wanting to give something back to the community, he bought a large building for a church youth center. But the cash ran out before he could finish fixing it up and now, the mortgage company is about to foreclose. With his bills mounting he agrees to one last fight.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, christian film, sincere
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Raise Your Head (2009)
Plot Summary:
Mero, a skilled shipyard worker, is a single father. His son Lorenzo, born from a relationship with an Albanian girl, is his only reason for living. The father dreams that the boy will become a champion boxer, to make up for his own anonymous career as an amateur in the ring. This is why he puts him through a tough training program, teaching him day after day to throw punches and protect himself from life's low blows. The balance of this relationship is disturbed by the return of Lorenzo's mother Denisa and by the son's meeting with young Ana. Mero's trials are not over and he must face up to pain, his prejudices and the remoteness of Italy's north east.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Pop Star (2013)
Plot Summary:
When talented young singer, Roxie Santos, meets music producer, Eddie Marz, he promises her an amazing new lifestyle and a future record deal. All he needs her to do is first lend her voice to a celebrity with no singing talent. However, when things go too far and it looks like she might lose her “voice” forever, she sets off to prove the truth.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, serious, realistic, independent film
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Counterpunch (2019)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story. A young boxer, Emilio, from the wrong side of the tracks with big dreams of winning the Golden Gloves boxing championship, finds himself at a cross roads after being locked up. As he fights his way back into the winning circle he gets a second shot at the championship title. As he is toe to toe in the ring with his competitor he'll throw all the punches and be the last man standing.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, emotional, realistic, tense, independent film
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A Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story (1999)
Plot Summary:
All his life, teenager Daniel Huffman and his grandma have dreamed of Daniel playing college football. After Daniel is cut from his high school team, his grandmother's encouragement and coaching get him a second chance at that dream. He works hard and becomes so good his coach believes he has a shot at making a top-ranked college team. But now Daniel faces a heart-wrenching choice that could force him to forever give up his dream.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic
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Max & Lenny (2014)
Plot Summary:
Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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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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The Man from Left Field (1993)
Plot Summary:
After taking a job managing a little league team, a homeless man inspires the kids to reach for it all and they inspire him to reclaim his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, feel good, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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The Dream Kids (2013)
Plot Summary:
JB suffers from a heart malformation .He falsifies his medical file ,so that he can enter a top athlete training center.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, captivating, humorous, serious, realistic
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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
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Double Teamed (2002)
Plot Summary:
Heather and Heidi play volleyball for their school team, when their family decides that they need to go to a bigger school so that they will have a better chance for scholarships. But at the new school, the twins are discovered by the basketball coach. Inspired by the true story of Heather and Heidi Burge.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, teen, offbeat
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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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Big Spender (2003)
Plot Summary:
Orphan Eddie Burton is not bad, but too many screw-ups land him repeatedly in jail, so his 8-year old son Will, simply abandoned by his 'mother', has nobody else then Eddie's granny. When he hears about a program for convicts working an a foundation's farm for retired race horses, Eddie signs up and proves his talent with Big Spender, who was found completely run down. He nurses the horse back to health, and convinces Jake Cotter, the man in charge, to try a stunt: train him for an new career in jumping, which is a success when his dedicated race jockey Mel Tennant volunteers to ride him again. If he does really well, he may even get a certificate opening the perspective of a real job, which he desperately needs when grandma dies after having him swear he'll get out: the nightmare alternative is to leave Will lingering in the very home that did Eddie no good.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic
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The Sound of the Spirit (2012)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful and precocious Rivka is a twelve-year-old Jewish girl who believes in Jesus. She and her father attend a Messianic Jewish congregation in their community. But when her father suddenly dies, Rivka's life changes forever. She ends up moving in with her traditional Jewish relatives and attending their synagogue. From her stormy relationship with her uncle, to a meeting with the synagogue’s senior rabbi, to the attention of the cutest boy in the synagogue, Rivka learns life lessons that stir her faith to new levels, touching the hearts of those whose lives she has reluctantly impacted. "The Sound of the Spirit" is the never-before-told story of a young girl caught in the crossfire of strong feelings between two faith communities. It’s told with humor, compassion, and grace.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, christian film, independent film
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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
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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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Talent for the Game (1991)
Plot Summary:
Major League Baseball scout must find promising young player to save his job and his team.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, serious, realistic, independent film
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Matchups (2003)
Plot Summary:
Ian Willams -- who was born blind in one eye -- grew up undaunted to become an elite college basketball player. But his dream of winning a national championship and turning pro was sidetracked when a tragic accident left him completely blind. Triumphing over adversity, Williams recalibrated his ambition and went on to become college basketball's first blind coach. A truly inspiring story about the triumph of the human spirit.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, independent film
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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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Calvin Marshall (2009)
Plot Summary:
A college student is determined to become a Major League Baseball star, but finds his true calling instead.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, freeze frame, realistic, independent film