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American football film, Drama, Sport, drama film, independent film
Miami Dolphins superstar running back Tony Nathan attended Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, Alabama during the early 1970s. Nathan became a model student and the first black football superstar in Alabama history. He and other black stud…
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Sport, drama film
Four years after forfeiting a major fight, former UFC fighter Jackie "Pretty Bull" Justice lives with her boyfriend and manager, Desi, in inner-city Newark. Earning a living as a housecleaner, Jackie relies on alcohol to cope with the tedi…
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
Mike Tyson grows up a troubled youth, who aspires to become a professional boxer. Manager and trainer Cus D'Amato begins turning the young Tyson into an undefeated fighter. However, Tyson becomes a difficult pupil who is often exposed and …
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Drama, Sport, boxing film, drama film, romance film, teen film
Diana Guzman is a Brooklyn teenager whose hot temper gets her into trouble at school as she repeatedly gets into fights with other students. Her frustration stems from her unhappy home life; she lives in a public housing estate with her br…
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Drama, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film
In 1990, Charles and Veronica "Vera" Antetokounmpo are forced to leave their eldest son Francis in Nigeria while they travel to Greece for a better life. They are unable to get visas due to the political climate and thus have no identifica…
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Action Comedy, action film, crime film, sport film
After a successful Sydney bank robbery, with the robbers wearing pig masks and wielding shotguns, the man in charge, "The Boss", plans a further and larger payroll robbery for two days later, worth at least $1.5 million. He hopes that he c…
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American football film, Biographical picture, Sport, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama
Minden, Louisiana, is a former factory town with a failing economy and a pathetic football team that no one believes in. Curtis Plummer, a washed-up former football player, returns home broke and directionless until he meets his niece Jasm…
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Dramedy, Romantic Comedy, association football film, romantic comedy
Former professional footballer George Dryer played for Celtic, Liverpool, D.C. United and the Scotland national team. Largely seen as a "has been", his attempts to sell his sports memorabilia and become a sports announcer are met with ambi…
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Komödie, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, sport film
Jack Elliot is an aging American baseball player for the New York Yankees. During 1992 spring training, he is traded to the Nagoya Chunichi Dragons of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. Jack clashes with Japanese culture and the team ma…
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Drama, Motor-Bike Film, buddy film, comedy drama, sport film
Halsy Knox, a professional dirt bike racer, runs into Little Fauss, an amateur racer, after a race held near Phoenix, Arizona. They strike up a friendship as Fauss is attracted to Halsy's carefree lifestyle. However, Fauss's father regards…
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Fake Documentary, Komödie, Sport, mockumentary
The film is framed as a fictitious HBO Sports documentary incorporating BBC footage. It explores the backgrounds of the competitors Aaron Williams and Charles Poole, two professional tennis players who face off in what becomes the longest …
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American football film, Drama, Komödie, Sport, comedy film, drama film
Jack Dundee is a banker obsessed with what he considers the most shameful moment in his life: dropping a perfectly thrown pass in the final seconds of the 1972 high school football game between Taft and their arch rivals, Bakersfield, that…
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Coming Of Age, Romance Film, coming-of-age film, drama film
In the present, Billy Wyatt is a washed-up baseball player in his thirties, living in a hotel with a cocktail waitress. One afternoon, he receives a phone call from his mother, Ginny, informing him that his childhood babysitter and friend,…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Gangster Film, comedy film, crime film
In 1940, the Great Depression is over and World War II has just begun. Fargo Gondorff is released from prison and reassembles his cronies for another con, out to avenge the murder of his lifelong pal and fellow con artist Kid Colors. Gondo…
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drama film, romance film
Robin is a teenage girl who is an assistant for her high school's gymnastics team, the Buffalo Flyers. She had been a competitor in the sport but was forced to stop competing after injuring her leg in the car accident which killed her fath…
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Drama, Sport, drama film
Mark Newton is a new and relatively inexperienced player on the B team of a London rugby club for gay men. He has a drunken encounter with Warren Hunt, a star player on the A team. Both men are in unhappy, long-term relationships.
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, drama film
The story begins in Baltimore, Maryland in 1902 where seven-year-old George Herman Ruth Jr. is sent to the St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, a reformatory and orphanage.
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American football film, Sport, comedy drama
In the late-1970s, Phil Elliott plays wide receiver for the North Dallas Bulls professional football team, based in Dallas, Texas, which closely resembles the Dallas Cowboys. Although considered to possess "the best hands in the game", the…
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Sport, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, sport film
Jaycen "Two-J's" Jennings is an arrogant washed up former football superstar. After a major car accident, Jaycen is ordered to perform community service in his old neighborhood. He sees an opportunity to rebuild his brand by coaching a str…
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Action, Auto Racing, Komödie, biographical film
In 1930s Danville, Virginia, a young African-American boy named Wendell Scott impresses local white boys with his bike-riding skills. Fifteen years later, after serving in World War II, Wendell returns home to a warm family welcome and qui…
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American football film, Komödie, parody film
Coach Lambeau Fields (David Koechner) has the distinction of being the worst coach in the history of sports that anyone can recall. The incompetent and seemingly hopeless coach has a job that he is finally proud of producing the DNA buildi…
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Drama, drama film, sport film
The film opens with Colin Smith running, alone, along a bleak country road somewhere in rural England. In a brief voiceover, he says that running is the way his family has always coped with the world's troubles, but that, in the end, the r…
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Action Comedy, action comedy film, romantic comedy
Stroker Ace is a popular race car driver from Waycross, Georgia. A three-time champion in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series, he drives the #7 Ford Thunderbird. An all-or-nothing man, he wins if he does not crash.
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Accident, Drama, Sport, association football film, drama television series
In the autumn of 1956 manager Matt Busby and his gives Bobby Charlton his debut with Manchester United's first team, nicknamed the "Busby Babes" due to their unique pedigree as an almost entirely club-nurtured team of players, under the gu…
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