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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 1,150 films · Page 23.
action film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, teen film
Tech is the frontman of his streetball team (Enemy of the State) and he is determined to take down rival Jewelz (Philip "Hot Sauce" Champion) and his team Platinum. Before the game starts, Tech calls his friend Noah Cruise and convinces Cr…
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Social Drama, Sport, association football film, crime film, drama film
The film begins in 1979 with Paul Carty (Nicky Bell), with his sister Molly, (Holliday Grainger) and father, at his mother's graveside. After his sister escorts her dad away from the grave, Carty, looking at his watch, starts to run off. A…
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Family Drama
In the fictional farming village of Tachatlán, in the Cihuatlán Valley of Jalisco, Mexico, young men dream of escaping the drudgery of the banana plantations. Two of them, a pair of half-brothers, play in local football matches. Tato is th…
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, biographical sports film, boxing film, sport film
Set in 1964, a direct cinema camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired two-time world featherweight boxing champion. Now living in Hartford, Connecticut with his wife Linda, an aspiring actress half his age, a drug-addled son, his Italian im…
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American football film, Drama, Sport
Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers are not friends in the beginning of the story; in fact they are rivals. During their first season together with pro football's Chicago Bears, Piccolo is never in the spotlight because Sayers is a better and mo…
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Biographical documentary, Sport, documentary film
Komödie, Sport, drama film, teen film
Jason "Jace" Newfield is the new blind student at his school, whose family recently moved from New York City to Salt Lake City. Thinking that his way to fit in is through playing the drums, he shows off in class only to find out that his b…
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, boxing film
comedy film
Two friends, Manoj (Gihan De Chickera), a bartender, and Stanley (Dharmapriya Dias), a fruit vendor, wish to emigrate to the West to seek their fortune, but have difficulties getting their visa applications approved. They come across an ap…
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Drama, drama film, sport film
An ambitious farmer Henry Whipple discusses with his 20-year-old son Dean about the art of sales. Dean is reluctant to be as ruthless as his father as they offer condolences and also unscrupulously attempt to purchase land during a family …
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American football film, Drama, Komödie, Psychodrama
Paul Aufiero is a parking garage attendant who lives with his mother in Staten Island, New York, and relentlessly follows the New York Giants football team. He and his friend Sal faithfully attend each Giants game; however, as they can't a…
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Komödie, Musical, musical film
Mike McCoy, the lead singer for a traveling band who is also a part-time race car driver, enjoys his carefree single life, which is threatened by three women who seek to marry him. Enter Cynthia Foxhugh, a spoiled heiress and "daddy's girl…
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Komödie, association football film, comedy television program, family film
Thirteen-year-old twin sisters Sam and Emma Stanton are opposites growing up in Evansville, Indiana. Sam is a star soccer player and a tomboy; however, she wants to attract boys. Emma is a popular girly girl who enjoys fashion and make-up,…
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comedy drama, coming-of-age film, sport film
The story focuses on two teenage girls from the middle-class Sutherland Shire in Sydney. The girls attempt to create a popular social status by ingratiating themselves with the "Greenhill gang" of surfers, a group of boys with a careless a…
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Drama, Sport, drama film, sport film
The film is an inside look at the world of Roller Games, then a popular league sport-entertainment, a more theatrical version of roller derby. K.C. Carr, who has just left her former team in Kansas City, Missouri, starts her life as a sing…
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Drama, beach party film
The story follows surfers Jody Wallis (Fabian), Steamer Lane (Tab Hunter), and Chase Colton (Peter Brown), who come to Hawaii's Oahu Island to ride the world's biggest waves and compete against surfers from all over the world. Steamer fall…
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Horror, Mysterie, Slasher Horror, horror film, mystery film, slasher film
Laura Ramstead, a senior athlete at a small-town Southern California high school, collapses during a track meet, dying unexpectedly of a cardiac embolism. Two months later, her elder sister Anne, a U.S.N. officer, arrives in town to partic…
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drama film, legal drama
Tripp Spence is a widowed Virginia-based lawyer who becomes the focus of an intensive IRS investigation regarding false bankruptcy claims he filed during his wife's fatal illness. Realizing his case against the inevitable criminal charges …
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Drama, Sport, drama film, sport film
In 1971, Cathy Rush, a woman ahead of her time, takes a job as the head women's basketball coach at Immaculata College. Rush faces a challenge of trying to compete against perennial powerhouses. When she assumes her position as coach, the …
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Drama, Sport, drama film
Drama, boxing film, crime film, drama film
Johnny Walker (Mickey Rourke) is a down-and-out boxer with brain damage who has recently moved into a sea-side resort. He falls in love with Ruby (Debra Feuer), a carnival owner with whom he shares much in common. He also befriends Wesley …
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American football film, Documentation, Sport, documentary film
Adventure, American football film, Drama, Komödie, fantasy film
The Westfield Angels high school football team is on a 54-game skid. Jesse Harper is their best player and is playing as tailback, shedding a new light for the team. However, after a terrible accident in a rainstorm in which his father Pet…
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Komödie, comedy film