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Crime, Film Noir, Sport, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir
Harry Fabian is an ambitious American tout and con man on the make in London. He maintains a fractured relationship with the honest Mary Bristol, nightclub owner and businessman Phil Nosseross and with Nosseross's scheming wife, Helen. Whi…
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Coming Of Age, Social Drama, drama film, independent film, sport film, thriller film
Alex, a 16-year-old skateboarder, rides a freight train clandestinely with a man named Scratch whom he has just met at the Eastside Skatepark, known as "Paranoid Park". While the train is moving a security guard notices the pair, chases af…
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Fantasy, Romantic Comedy, fantasy film, romantic comedy
The story begins on "the strangest day" of Larry Burrows's life (his 35th birthday) consisting of a series of comic and dramatic misadventures. Larry blames his life's problems on having struck out during a key moment of his state high sch…
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Drama, biographical film, buddy film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, teen film
In 1974, college-educated Jim Ellis is having a hard time finding employment. While struggling to find something better, Jim, a former competitive swimmer, works at the decrepit Marcus Foster Recreation Center in a poor neighborhood of Phi…
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Komödie, children's film, comedy film
Coach Roy McCormick was once college basketball's top mastermind. His attention began to turn to what endorsement contracts he could secure instead of actually coaching his team. Roy lets his temper get the best of him in most situations.
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama
When race car driver Brewster Baker stops at a gas station in a small Texas town, parts are stolen from his race car. While at a local diner, he sees people stealing parts from another car, so he gives chase. When the thieves' van goes int…
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Social Drama, drama film, sport film
Frank Machin is a bitter young coal miner from the West Riding of Yorkshire. The first part of the story is told through a series of flashbacks when Frank is anaesthetised in a dentist's chair, having had his front teeth broken in a rugby …
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Komödie, Sport, boxing film, comedy film
James "The Grim Reaper" Roper (Damon Wayans), the undefeated heavyweight boxing champ of the world, defeats his latest challenger with ease and visits an after-party thrown by Rev. Fred Sultan (Samuel L. Jackson), a conniving and manipulat…
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Komödie, Sport, comedy film
After the New York Yankees' latest prospect Tommy Lacy suffers a humiliating bout of stage fright in his debut for the team, scout Al Percolo, who discovered Tommy, is punished by being sent to the Mexican countryside to look for his next …
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Drama
Johnny "Pono" Kapahala, a seventeen-year-old snowboarding champion from Vermont, returns to Oahu, Hawaii, for the wedding of his grandfather, local surf legend Johnny Tsunami. Johnny is excited about the marriage as he anticipates having a…
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Action, Adventure, Drama, drama film, romance film, sport film, teen film
In Summit Valley, Colorado, Kayla Morgan begins training to win the "Fire and Ice" snowboarding competition alongside her boyfriend Nick Swift, the son of team coach Sebastian Swift. One night, Nick and his friends steal the sled of famous…
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American football film, Drama, Sport, drama film
Deon, a skilled college running back, falls ill from a genetic disease just when he is about to go realize his dreams and advance to the NFL, a professional American Football league. Though idolized for his athletic ability, Deon shares th…
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Drama, Sport, drama film, sport film
Miguel "Sugar" Santos (Perez Soto) spends his weekends at home, passing from the landscaped gardens and manicured fields on one side of the guarded academy gate to the underdeveloped, more chaotic world beyond. In his small village outside…
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Komödie, boxing film, fantasy film, romantic comedy
On May 11, 1941, boxer and amateur pilot Joe Pendleton, affectionately known as "the Flying Pug", flies his small aircraft to his next fight in New York City but crashes when a control cable severs. His soul is retrieved by 7013, an offici…
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drama film, sport film
In the small Arctic town of Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Russ Sheppard takes up a job as a history teacher to pay off his college debt to the Canadian government while waiting for an offer from St. Andrews, a prep school. His colleague Mike picks h…
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Action, Drama, Sport, action film, drama film
Junior Jackson is a restless young man who finds himself the family breadwinner when his father, a career moonshiner, is arrested and sentenced to one-year imprisonment. Junior is an outstanding driver, so he enters a demolition derby prom…
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Komödie, action comedy film, blaxploitation film, boxing film, buddy film
Two friends, Billy Foster and Clyde Williams, need to quickly find a way to raise funds for their fraternal lodge, the Sons and Daughters of Shaka. It is incumbent on Billy to find the money because he is the treasurer of the struggling lo…
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drama film, sport film
The plot follows two cheerleaders named Riley and Amanda as they navigate the world of competitive cheerleading.
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sport film
Bobby Ratliff and his best friend, lawyer Jon Kelly, co-coach a Little League Baseball team in Fort Worth, Texas, which their sons play on. The team is struggling and most of the players have little interest in the sport, wanting to get th…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film
Walter Krunk is a 35-year-old orphan who has lived in an orphanage since childhood. He has a friendship with a fellow orphan named Henry. During a play at the orphanage, Walter ruins the set by crashing into the set when his harness malfun…
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Drama, Sport, drama film
Luke Chisholm, a young professional golfer, has a meltdown during a tournament. After shooting 80 in the final round, Chisholm crashes his car into a fence and finds himself stuck in Utopia, Texas while his car is repaired. He gets wisdom …
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Sport
Xiao Ming "Bernard" Chang is a band geek sophomore in high school who expresses interest in basketball, while being rivals with his former friend, star player Matt O'Neil. One day, Chang meets his new bandmate Kristy and becomes smitten wi…
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Drama, Sport, drama film
Larry Murphy was convicted of first degree murder and is serving a life term in Folsom Prison for shooting his father, which he feels was justified because his father was raping his stepsister. In prison he is nicknamed "Lickety Split" by …
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Komödie, children's film
Josh Framm is off to his first year of college and Buddy has stayed behind with Josh's little sister, Andrea, and the rest of the family. Jackie and Patrick have recently welcomed Josh and Andrea's baby half-brother Noah. Andrea, attemptin…
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