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Plot Summary:
A depressed and destitute Nick Irons, a tennis pro banned from the tour for slugging a player during a TV match, agrees to coach a bookie's "head case" son, Joel, who wants to turn pro. The bookie wants his son to get out of tennis and contracts Nick to discourage him. Nick begins to do that but after an episode with his old flame, Jennifer, and after seeing the kid's determination he decides to teach him all the tricks, both physical and psychological, of the trade. The two battle the kids of a famous coach, unfair refs., injuries, travel all over the southern US, while Nick tries to woo his love back, finally to reach the big championship tennis match where all is resolved in dramatic fashion.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Final Set (2020)
Plot Summary:
Thomas was once renowned as a young tennis prodigy, but never had the career he hoped for. At 37, despite his declining physical fitness and shattered knee he decides to compete in the intense qualifying rounds of the French Open at Roland-Garros for one last attempt at glory. Although his wife Eve and mother Judith advise him to give up, Thomas obsessively pushes forward. He will have to fight his own demons and will ultimately face a determined young player who reminds him of his younger self.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Sopernitsy (1985)
Plot Summary:
Sopernitsy (aka The Rivals) is about coaching a winner. Two young ladies are competing in a canoe race. The more experienced girl always wins every competition. But the ladies are not just competitors in sport but are also competitors for the attention of the handsome young coach Aleksandr (Demich), who shows no preferences for either of them. The experienced coach Semenich (Shelokhonov) still believes in the potential of the weaker girl Natalia (Guzeyeva). Motivated by her new friend Sergei (Shtefanko), Natalia switches to windsurfing and wins a competition. Inspired, she goes back to the canoe and makes spectacular progress. After arduous trainings, she wins the canoe competition and also the respect of her rival and the coaches.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Dive (2022)
Plot Summary:
Mariel is a veteran elite diver who has one last chance at the Olympic Games. However, when a terrible truth comes to light, Mariel faces her biggest personal question: Is winning her true dream?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Argentina, Mexico, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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A Move of a White Queen (1972)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on the eponymous book by Lev Kassil. Natasha is called "The White Queen", because she is the winner of many international ski competitions. Her coach is going through a midlife crisis. He makes a decision to quit his career in sports. His loyal student, Natasha, convinces him to continue being her coach for another competition.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Champions: A Love Story (1979)
Plot Summary:
Two teens become romantically involved as they train for a skating championship.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, tragic ending
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Heart of Champions (2021)
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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American Anthem (1986)
Plot Summary:
Steve is a talented gymnast who has given up competition and is working at his father's bike shop. Julie is the new girl at his old gym, who has moved to town to train with their powerful coach. Inspired by Julie, Steve resumes training. While dealing with the conflicts in their personal lives and the stress of training, they prepare for the US Olympic Trials.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, touching, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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American Wrestler: The Wizard (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1980, a teenage boy escapes the unrest in Iran only to face more hostility in America, due to the hostage crisis. Determined to fit in, he joins the school's floundering wrestling team.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Tournament (2015)
Plot Summary:
Budapest International Chess Tournament. The most likely winner: Cal Fournier (22), French champion, immature genius, socially awkward, compulsive player. But this time, an unusual 9-years-old Hungarian opponent disrupts this smooth-running routine.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, sincere, entertaining
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The Final Game (2022)
Plot Summary:
A few months before the ’92 Barcelona Olympic Games, it looks like the Spanish water polo team will hardly make a splash during their home field Olympics. The national team is a battleground under attack on two fronts: the harsh techniques of their new coach, which threaten to incapacitate more than one player, and the infighting between leaders Manel Estiarte and Pedro Aguado. Can the team stay united and overcome their personal differences? Will reaching sporting glory be possible in the face of such adversity?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Spain, Andorra
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Dernier stade (1994)
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration:
Plot tags:
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A Shining Season (1979)
Plot Summary:
The true story of University of New Mexico track star John Baker who, dying of cancer, spent his remaining time coaching a losing girls" track team to a winning season.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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A Promise Kept: The Oksana Baiul Story (1994)
Plot Summary:
The 16-year-old Ukrainian figure skater (Monica Keena) overcomes personal tragedies to become the 1994 Olympic gold medalist.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Lucky You (2007)
Plot Summary:
A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poker while simultaneously earning the affections of a beautiful Las Vegas singer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: clever, exciting, suspense, entertaining, feel good, realistic, inspirational, touching, sentimental, serious
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Diggstown (1992)
Plot Summary:
Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man. The business man owns most of a boxing-mad town called Diggstown. The bet is that Gabe can find a boxer that will knock out 10 Diggstown men, in a boxing ring, within 24 hours. "Honey" Roy Palmer is that man - although at 48, many say he is too old.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult classic, witty, neo noir, comedy drama, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, tense, light
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1 Mile To You (2017)
Plot Summary:
After a teenager's friends die in an accident, he finds running allows him to remember them perfectly. Running, however, also brings him notoriety. He is caught between keeping the past alive and making new memories in the present.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, romantic, uplifting, captivating, sad, teen
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The Challenger (2015)
Plot Summary:
A legendary trainer comes out of retirement to help an underdog boxer fight his way to a better life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: inspirational, captivating, tense, realistic
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4 Minute Mile (2014)
Plot Summary:
A teenager overcomes odds to run a 4-minute mile race.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, realistic, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, crying, motivational, gloomy
Similar in 82%
Number One (1969)
Plot Summary:
A former football hero cannot accept his career is over. He loses himself in alcohol and women.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, ambiguous ending, cult film
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23 Blast (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe handicapped life or bravely return to the life he once knew and the sport he still loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, serious, realistic, christian film, motivational, independent film, inspirational
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Rocky IV (1985)
Plot Summary:
After iron man Drago, a highly intimidating 6-foot-5, 261-pound Soviet athlete, kills Apollo Creed in an exhibition match, Rocky comes to the heart of Russia for 15 pile-driving boxing rounds of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 223000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: inspirational, tense, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed, saga, feel good, patriotic, action adventure, psychological
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American Flyers (1985)
Plot Summary:
When Dr. Marcus Sommers realizes that he and his troubled, estranged brother David may be prone a fatal brain disease that runs in their family, he decides to make peace with his sibling, and invites him on a trip to the Rockies. There, the brothers bond over their shared enthusiasm for cycling and decide to enter a grueling bike race through the mountains. However, Marcus' health soon begins to fail, and David must compete without his brother at his side.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sad, sincere, uplifting, serious, realistic, exciting, light, inspirational
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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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The Long Run (2001)
Plot Summary:
A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Marathon is a 90-k race in South Africa. An aging running coach, Barry, wants to field a winner; he's working with four men from a factory, but when he's fired to make way for a smooth, corporate type, he's at loose ends. Then he sees Christine, a Namibian immigrant who runs to forget her troubles. He offers to coach her and soon she's living at his house, following his diet and training regimen. But his single-mindedness gets to her: she wants a job and a place of her own. Plus, the man who replaced Barry likes her and wants her away from Barry. Can runner and coach (woman and man, African and European) sort out their complex relationship before the race? Written by.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: South Africa
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: uplifting, sincere, touching, feel good, serious, realistic, independent film
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Rocky III (1982)
Plot Summary:
Now the world champion, Rocky Balboa is living in luxury and only fighting opponents who pose no threat to him in the ring, until Clubber Lang challenges him to a bout. After taking a pounding from Lang, the humbled champ turns to former bitter rival Apollo Creed for a rematch with Lang.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 208000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: inspirational, captivating, suspenseful, action packed, action adventure, suspense, psychological, motivational, uplifting, saga
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Girlfight (2000)
Plot Summary:
Diana Guzman begins to train as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers, all while keeping it a secret from her father.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: uplifting, independent film, captivating, touching, realistic, serious, cult classic, rough, gloomy, sincere
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Rocky V (1990)
Plot Summary:
A lifetime of taking shots has ended Rocky's career, and a crooked accountant has left him broke. Inspired by the memory of his trainer, however, Rocky finds glory in training and takes on an up-and-coming boxer.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 148000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: inspirational, serious, realistic, action packed, saga, action adventure, suspense, cult classic, sincere, feel good
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The Natural (1984)
Plot Summary:
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league in this magical sports fantasy. With the aid of a bat cut from a lightning struck tree, Hobbs lives the fame he should have had earlier when, as a rising pitcher, he is inexplicably shot by a young woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: inspirational, romantic, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, realistic, feel good, emotional, sad, serious
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Whip It (2009)
Plot Summary:
In Bodeen, Texas, Land Of The Dragon, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: feel good, uplifting, teen, cute, light, inspirational, exciting, witty, intense, funny
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Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Plot Summary:
Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 713000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: emotional, sad, touching, depressing, bad ending, bleak, harsh, poignant, motivational, sentimental