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Komödie, Sport, comedy film, musical film
M. Harry Smilac, once a successful music promoter, is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his sole client, the rock band Kick. Behind on his car payments and owing a large amount to a banker, he reluctantly accepts a …
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Drama, Justice Drama, Sport, War Film, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
A stevedore in Thessaloniki, Greece, Salamo Arouch's passion is boxing. Captured along with his family and fiancée Allegra in 1943 and interned in Auschwitz, Arouch is used by his SS captors as entertainment, forced to box against fellow p…
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Documentation, Sport, documentary film
Family Comedy, teen film
Ready to Run is the story of 14-year-old Corrie Ortiz (Krissy Perez), an energetic girl who dreams of becoming a jockey in the predominantly male sport of Thoroughbred horse racing. Although her father died in a racing-related accident, an…
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comedy film
At a midwestern college in 1951, student Mary Crawford has the combined good and bad fortune to meet Andy Schmidt, a remarkably conceited young man who is convinced that he is tremendously talented and has every intention of becoming a sta…
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Biographical picture, Sport, sport film
The film details the life of stock-car racing legend Dale Earnhardt. From an early age, Earnhardt learned about cars from his father Ralph, who worked at a mill to feed and clothe his family but also rebuilt jalopies in his garage and race…
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Komödie, boxing film, comedy film
Jimmy Connelly is a milkman who is thrust into the spotlight after a brutal fighter, Pete Wright, gets injured. Under manager Herbie Bush, Jimmy must fight the middleweight champion of the world, Jose Mendez. Within the lead up to the figh…
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Action, Drama, action film, drama film, sport film
Professional race car driver Frank Capua meets divorcee Elora. After a whirlwind romance they are married. Charley, Elora's teenage son by her first husband, becomes very close to Frank, and helps him prepare his cars for his races.
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Komödie, Sport, comedy film
David Greene is a basketball fanatic living in Brooklyn, New York, who alternates his time between playing in neighborhood pickup basketball games and managing a delicatessen. Formerly a junior high-school coach, he dreams of making his li…
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Komödie, Sport, comedy film
25 years after the events of the first film, the Charlestown Chiefs are still languishing in Pennsylvania. Sean Linden, a former NHL player whose name has been disgraced for betting on games, has replaced Reggie Dunlop as the main protagon…
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film
Based on Jim Piersall's autobiography, the film traces his rise from the sandlots of Waterbury, Connecticut, to the Boston Red Sox professional baseball team. Karl Malden plays his domineering father who pushes him further and further. Pla…
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Musical, Romantic Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
In the early 1900s, world champion baseball team, the Wolves, is preparing for spring training but is missing star players Dennis Ryan and Eddie O'Brien, who are late returning from their off-season jobs as vaudeville performers. While Edd…
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Drama, Sport, drama film, sport film
In the mid-1980s, Danny Scoular marries Beth. Several years later, the couple have two children and Danny is a striking miner, who is sentenced to six months in prison for assaulting a police officer during a protest. Upon his release, the…
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Drama, drama film
A mute Frank Mansfield is locked inside a trailer preparing his best cock for an upcoming fight. He slices the chicken's beak slightly so that it looks cracked in order to obtain higher betting odds in the upcoming fight. He bets his trail…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Slim, Frank, Otis and Alex are a group of youthful bank robbers, who commit their crimes anonymously and in innovative ways involving extreme sports, such as skating and snowboarding. The group evades capture from the police, led by "hardb…
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Komödie, Sport, teen film
Since kindergarten, Handsome Davis and Sammy Green have been stealing teachers' test answer keys to cheat on tests. By the time they're in middle school, they regularly have a classmate named Evan Rosengarten do their homework for them, an…
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American football film, Drama, Sport, biographical film, drama film
Luke Abbate is a popular high school athlete, who plays lacrosse and football. When the 15-year-old dies in a car accident caused by a reckless teenage driver after lacrosse practice in February 2006, Luke's older brother, Jon Abbate, is m…
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Action, Satire, Sport, Tragic Comedy Film, action film, comedy film, drama film
Harry is the manager of a tag team of attractive female wrestlers, Iris and Molly. On the road, they all endure a number of indignities, including bad motels, small-time crooks and a mud-wrestling match while trying to reach Reno, Nevada, …
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American football film, Biographical picture, athletics film, biographical film
During a banquet, legendary football coach "Pop" Warner delivers a speech praising Jim Thorpe, which leads to a flashback. Young Jim Thorpe runs home before his first day at an Indian reservation school, but his father convinces him to ret…
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Teen Horror Film, slasher film, splatter film
In Eastern Europe, a group of US college athletes are participating in a wrestling championship; they include Todd (Derek Magyer) and his girlfriend Alex (Thora Birch), Sheldon (Kavan Reece), Claire (Gloria Votsis), and young assistant coa…
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Documentation, Sport, documentary film
Fantasy, Komödie, comedy film, fantasy film
When Eddie Everett was a rookie in 1992, he was one of the best pitchers of his time. He led the California Angels to the American League Championship Series, where they played the Boston Red Sox, and were one out away from making it to th…
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Komödie, Sport, comedy film
Crime, Drama, sport film
Detective Mike Hoolihan (Patricia Clarkson) is investigating the murder of Jennifer Rockwell (Mamie Gummer), an astrophysicist at an observatory in New Orleans. She had presented a talk on black holes in the evening but was found dead in t…
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