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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 1,150 films · Page 30.
American football film, Komödie, comedy film, musical film
Due to a misunderstanding, Yale inadvertently invites the small Texas State University to come to Connecticut and play against its football team for a benefit game. Coincidentally, TSU has just hired a new coach, Slug Winters, who arrives …
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biographical film, sport film
As a young child, Romanian Nadia Comăneci was discovered by domineering gymnastics coach Béla Károlyi. Károlyi and his wife Márta trained Comăneci in their gymnastics school for eight years. Comăneci eventually became a world champion gymn…
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Komödie, boxing film, comedy film, silent film
left|thumb|thumbtime=15|Battling Butler (1926) thumb|Battling Butler ad in Motion Picture News, 1926 Alfred Butler is a scion of a wealthy family, but an embarrassment to his father as Alfred is a slight, gentle young man, accustomed to ea…
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comedy film, family film, sport film
comedy film
Virgil Sweet is a veteran baseball scout for the California Angels. He is in danger of losing his life's work because the Angels' new owner, Gil Lawrence, is unhappy with the farm system and threatening to eliminate the team's scouts. Virg…
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Crime, Drama, Komödie, Sport, comedy film
Nick Casey, whose nickname is the "Baltimore Bullet," is a legendary pool player whose best days are behind him. He decides to teach everything he knows to a young up-and-comer, Billie Joe Robbins, all leading up to a big winner-take-all m…
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Documentation, Sport, documentary film
The film documents the 25-year history of Eric Bana's first car, a 1974 Ford XB Falcon Hardtop that he purchased at the age of fifteen for A$1100. In this film, Eric explores the central role that fixing and racing this car has played in h…
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Drama, Sport
Drama, drama film, melodrama, romance film, sport film
Mike McDermot is a rising golf star on the PGA Tour until he is accused of cheating. He supposedly has offered to split a winner's purse with a competitor, Jonathan Linus, if his opponent deliberately misses a final putt. In fact, the comp…
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Coming Of Age, action film, drama film, family film, sport film
Star lacrosse player Conor Sullivan is not excited about moving to an unknown town and being the new kid at high school. He has a new love interest, Brooklyn, but he struggles to find a meaning to his life. Conor's Marine father Seamus is …
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Adventure, Documentation, Sport, documentary film
Action, Drama, action film, martial arts film
In 1969, at the height of the Vietnam War, GI Billy Thomas saves captain Scott Monroe's life, but gets shot in the head in the process. The extensive brain damage leaves him with diminished mental capabilities. After the war, Scott opens a…
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Drama, Sport, drama film
Komödie, Sport, sport film
Shred is a motion picture that tells the story of two washed up pro snowboarders from the 90s named Max and Eddy who attempt to cash in on the fantastic growth of the sport by starting their own snowboard camp. Hoping to recapture their fo…
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sport film
The film explores the way in which business tore up the loyalty that was between Grub's club and family. Essentially this is a metaphor for the way in which business began to imprint the game of Rugby League during the 1980s, and saw the r…
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Action, Sport, boxing film
Set in Kirkby, Liverpool, the plot centres around Ronnie O'Dowd, a single mother born to a Scottish father who championed in street boxing and her more gentle, ‘ladylike’ mother who dislikes her husband participating in street boxing. Ronn…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Sport, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film
Boxing manager Big Sid is told by the head of a crime syndicate that a shipment of heroin is arriving, and in turn, Sid instructs his henchman Brenner to oversee the shipment. At the dock where the shipment is to arrive, a dock worker name…
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comedy drama
In 1983 Don Robson started a boys football team called Athletico Greenwich. Twenty years later six of the lads are still playing for the team, but things have become so much more complicated. Cass, the team's top scorer on and off the pitc…
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biographical film, drama film, sport film
De Guzman's teleplay was adapted from two well-received biographies, Kal Wagenheim's Babe Ruth: His Life and Legend and Robert Creamer's Babe: The Legend Comes to Life, both published in 1974.
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Drama, drama film, sport film
Carley Elle Allison (Sarah Fisher) is a 17-year-old competitive figure skater in Toronto. Her motto is "always smile" or "find a reason to be happy". She has a lot going for her: she is working to gain a place on Canada’s national team, an…
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Drama, Sport, independent film
Pro baseball player Cory Brand is forced into a rehabilitation program in his Oklahoma hometown of Okmulgee after several alcohol-related incidents and being responsible for injuring his brother Clay in an alcohol-related car crash. Cory r…
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Komödie, Sport, sport film
Former ballplayer "Coop" (Dailey) is working as a peanut vendor at the ballpark of a struggling major league club, the Bisons. He has passed on his love of the game to his son Christie (Chapin), but after sneaking his son into the game one…
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Komödie, Silly Movie, Sport, comedy film, sport film, teen film
A competition is held between two brothers on their father's ski slopes; one is a skier, the other a snowboarder. The competition would determine if snowboarders could be allowed to be a part the ski patrol. Into the scene arrives Rudy Jam…
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documentary film, sport film