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Komödie, Sport, children's film
Teenager Jerome Jenkins Jr. and his friends are skilled at streetball but cannot match the older boys in their neighborhood. When they learn that a streetball team called Game On is coming to town to scout for talent, they train intensely …
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association football film, drama film
In the year 1978, Gracie Bowen, a 15-year-old tomboy who lives in South Orange, New Jersey, is crazy about soccer, as are her three brothers and their former soccer star father. Although Gracie wants to join her brothers and neighbor Kyle …
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Komödie, Sport, road movie
Tired of being treated like a slave by team owner Sallison Potter, charismatic star pitcher Bingo Long steals a bunch of Negro league players away from their teams, including catcher and slugger Leon Carter, and Charlie Snow, a player fore…
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adventure film, biographical film, documentary film, sport film
In 1924 mountaineer George Mallory was torn between love for his wife Ruth, and his obsession with the last great adventure left to man: becoming the first person to reach the summit of the untouched Mount Everest. Dressed in gabardine and…
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Drama, Sport, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
Erik Kernan Jr. is a young fledgling journalist employed by The Denver Times. Frustrated, Kernan struggles with his supervising editor Ralph Metz concerning rudimentary coverage of his articles related to professional sports.
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Social Drama, comedy film, drama film, romance film
The film begins with Joe Kavanagh at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, relaying an experience from his past. On the way to pick up Liam, a former junkie whom Joe is fond of, for a football match, they are cut off by Sarah, a health visitor …
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Darryl Palmer is a baseball player for the Atlanta Braves. He enjoys the fame and fringe benefits of bachelor life until he meets rock singer Debby Huston, falls in love, and decides to settle down. Debby is not ready to put her profession…
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Documentation, Sport, association football film, documentary film
Ronaldo documents the life and way of thinking of Cristiano Ronaldo (born Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro; 5 February 1985), from his childhood until 2015, through a series of interviews with Ronaldo himself as well as friends and fami…
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Komödie, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, coming-of-age film, teen film
Palmer Woodrow is a rich prep school kid who rarely attends class and has been expelled from numerous prep schools. His parents are traveling internationally and inform him that he has been enrolled at Hoover Academy and he has one last ch…
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Drama, sport film
After serving 17 years in prison for a violent mistake, Sonny returns to his Bronx neighborhood and to his baseball aspirations.
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Sport, drama film
Based on the true story of Kent Stock, who in 1991 takes on what he perceives as the job of a lifetime as head coach of the Norway High School Tigers baseball team, which has won 19 state titles and has a baseball tradition in Iowa tantamo…
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
When his parents' house is destroyed in a tornado, Harvard student Alan Jensen, point guard for the Harvard men's basketball team, is desperate for $100,000 to replace their home. He is approached by his girlfriend Cindy Bandolini, whose f…
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Drama, Sport, action film, drama film
Joe Maloney (Brad Pitt) is a straight A student vying for an athletic scholarship to Stanford University. He lives with his mother (Carrie Snodgress) in a trailer park in Gardena, CA. His well laid plans for the future are thrown into turm…
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drama film, romantic comedy
The movie begins with Donald Foley retrieving curling stones from a lake near Long Bay, Ontario. Foley dies after retrieving the stones, and a codicil to his will demands that the curling rink he formerly coached be re-assembled, and enter…
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete who loses her confidence whenever her charming but overbearing fiancé, Collier, is around. Women's golf and tennis championships are within her reach; however, she gets flustered by his presence at the …
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Film Noir, boxing film, drama film, film noir
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempts the man with a number of vices. C…
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Sport, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film
Monroe Clark moves to California to pursue a law career. At the airport, he meets Wiley Hunter, who offers him a ride to the home of Monroe's uncle Max, who assigns Monroe the job of handing homeowners a "pay or quit" notice to either to v…
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Computeranimation, comedy film, family film, sport film
In a world of anthropomorphic animals, a slow loris named Zhi (voiced by Jimmy O. Yang) lives with his grandmother in a rural Chinese village. As a child, his idol is a villainous cane toad racer named Archie Vainglorious (voiced by John C…
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Action, Drama, Sport, action film, drama film
Sam and Cam Munroe are a father and son duo competing at the Talladega Short Track dirt race track. Sam is a local racing legend who now supports his son's racing in between dating divorcee Becca. Despite being a talented racer, Cam's car …
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Documentation, Sport
Documentation, Sport, documentary film
More than a Game is a documentary that focuses in on five young basketball players—LeBron James, Dru Joyce III, Romeo Travis, Sian Cotton, Willie McGee—and their coach, Dru Joyce II, performing on an AAU team with the growing stardom of th…
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Crime, Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, drama film
Hector Bloom is a laconic, libidinous college basketball star distracted by obligations and current events: the misadventures of his volatile roommate Gabriel, a potential pro career, the draft, campus unrest, and a turbulent affair with O…
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Komödie, Sport, athletics film, comedy film, family film
Sam Archer and his assistant Milo Jackson are coaches at Merrivale College. They have lost every game in every sport that they have coached, raising the concerns of Dean Maxwell and the Alumni Association. With only one year left on his co…
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comedy film, family film, sport film
After Charlie Brown's baseball team loses its first game of the season, all of his players quit. After the players on his team agree to only rejoin if he is able to get some uniforms, Charlie Brown and his friend Linus start searching for …
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