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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 1,150 films · Page 15.
Action Comedy, action film, comedy film
Michael Bannon, a wealthy but bored businessman and candymaker, issues the code word "Gumball" to his fellow automobile enthusiasts, who gather in a garage in New York City to embark on a coast-to-coast race "with no catalytic converter an…
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Drama, Romance Film, Sport, drama film, romance film
Dan Millman is a university student as well as a locally famous gymnast who dreams of winning a National Championship competition. He suffers from restlessness, and on one occasion, Dan attempts to compensate for it by running along street…
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
Rocky Graziano has a difficult childhood and is beaten by his father. He joins a street gang, and undergoes a long history of criminal activities. He is sent to prison, where he is rebellious to all authority figures.
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Drama, Sport, drama film
Henry Wiggen is a star pitcher for the New York Mammoths, a fictional Major League Baseball team. He is a valuable player to his manager Dutch but is in a dispute with the team's ownership, holding out for a new contract and more money. He…
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American football film, Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, drama film
Ernie Davis is a young African American growing up in Pennsylvania with his maternal half-uncle Will Davis Jr. in the late 1940s. Davis lives with his extended family, including his maternal grandfather, Willie 'Pops' Davis, who guides and…
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Sport, biographical film, drama film
In the late 1980s, gay wrestler Saúl Armendáriz lives in El Paso, Texas with his mother, regularly crossing the border to Ciudad Juárez to participate in professional wrestling matches. He begins wrestling as 'El Topo' until he meets a new…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy film
John Farley is a successful self-help author of the bestseller Letting Go: How to Get Past Your Past, who returns to his hometown in Nebraska to receive an award. John arrives home and learns that his widowed mother Beverly is dating his f…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Sport, biographical film, drama film
American football film, Sport, Teen Comedy Film, comedy film, romantic comedy
Johnny Walker, a student at Ashcroft High School, is the top high school quarterback prospect in the nation, and is being heavily recruited by many schools. His best friend, Leo Wiggins, thinks he should hold out for the best offer while h…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Lou Gehrig is a young Columbia University student whose old-fashioned mother wants him to study hard and become an engineer, but the young man has a gift for baseball. A sportswriter befriends Gehrig and persuades a scout to come see him p…
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Drama, Sport, teen film
In 1985, fourteen-year-old identical twins Heather and Heidi Burge are forced by their overly-pushy father to leave their former school and attend a different school to have better chances at college scholarships. Heidi, however, tended to…
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Romance Film, Sport, biographical film, boxing film, drama film, romance film
Set between 1910 and 1915, the story follows Jack Jefferson, patterned after real-life boxer Jack Johnson, going on a hot streak of victories in the boxing ring as he defeats every white boxer around. Soon the press and others who want to …
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Sport, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film
Ralph Walker is a teenager attending a Catholic school in Hamilton, Ontario. His father was killed in World War II and his mother is hospitalized with an unidentified illness. Ralph is naturally prone to mischief and often finds himself an…
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film
The film follows the life of runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to the University of Oregon, where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman, to the Olympics in Munich, and his early death at age 24 in a car cras…
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Fantasy, Komödie, Sport, comedy film, ghost film
Antoine (Kadeem Hardison) and Kenny Tyler (Marlon Wayans), two close brothers, play a basketball game in 1986. Their motto for each other is "A&K: All the Way", created by their mother. Their father, James, coaches the team and directs Ken…
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Komödie, comedy film
The New York Knicks are also-rans in the NBA, their roster filled with players who either lack talent or are too distracted by off-the-court issues. Nonetheless, limousine driver and rabid fan Edwina "Eddie" Franklin attends every Knicks g…
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Drama, Sport
During the Great Depression, war veteran and former orphan Rusty Russell (Luke Wilson) relocates with his wife Juanita (Vinessa Shaw) and daughter to Fort Worth, Texas, to teach math and science at the Masonic Home for Orphans. He also tak…
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Teen Comedy Film, comedy film, teen film
Catalina "Lina" Cruz is a Cuban-American cheerleader from East Los Angeles who transfers to Malibu after her widowed mother, Isabel, remarries Henry, a wealthy widower. Lina becomes a rival to Avery, the all-star cheerleading captain of 'T…
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Komödie, Martial-Arts, comedy drama, comedy film, martial arts film
Fred Simmons is a fourth-degree black belt in Taekwondo who runs his own dojang in a small North Carolina town. He styles himself a big shot, driving a Ferrari and extolling the virtues of Taekwondo to potential new students, but loses his…
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Drama, association football film, drama film
Robert Duvall plays the club manager, Gordon McLeod. Jackie McQuillan (Ally McCoist) is the team's striker, an ageing player on the verge of retirement, who has recently been signed from Arsenal. McQuillan is a legendary ex-Celtic player w…
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, boxing film, sport film
Claressa “T‑Rex” Shields, a determined teenager from Flint, Michigan, refuses to be confined by the chaos of her upbringing. When she walks into the boys‑only boxing gym of former pro Jason Crutchfield, she demands a chance to train. Despi…
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Drama, Komödie, Sport, comedy drama
A struggling talent agent, Sammy Kamin, travels to Romania on business after splitting up with his wife. After his young client Justin Allen fires him, Sammy crashes his car and is rescued, while unconscious, by an enormous Romanian man na…
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Sport, action film, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
Growing up in Panama, Durán is homeschooled by Chaflan, who teaches young Roberto some vital life lessons. Later, Duran joins a boxing club with Nestor "Plomo" Quiñones as his coach. As he reaches 20, an American legendary boxing trainer R…
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Documentation, Sport
Dogtown and Z-Boys, narrated by Sean Penn, begins with the history of skateboarding in Southern California and how it had been strongly influenced by the surf culture in the surrounding areas of Santa Monica and Venice, nicknamed Dogtown. …
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