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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 1,150 films · Page 33.
sport film
Joe Lucas is determined that his son Adam will become a champion iron man. He neglects his younger son, Steve, who is an aspiring band manager and enjoys karate, as well as being his brother's training partner. The leading iron man event i…
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Western film
J.W. Coop is an ex-convict making up for lost time. His dream is to be the best rodeo cowboy, and the film follows his competitions on the circuit.
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Gangster Film, comedy thriller, crime film
Former basketball star Joe Mulligan's career ends due to a knee injury, so he sells drugs with his former coach Bobby Zan through his bar Bobby's. One fateful night, several events eventually lead him into a better life. Drug lord William …
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Drama, Sport, drama film, independent film
A gaunt, bushy-bearded, 44-year-old Wes Holman returns to his Marin County roots after a 20-year absence, determined to enter one of America's oldest distance races. Holman was banned from competition after being a whistle-blower about ill…
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Religious drama, Sport
"When a small-town baseball coach gets the offer of a lifetime from a larger 6A High School, he uproots his family and leaves the only home he's ever known. But as a man of faith, he soon faces extreme opposition to his coaching methods fr…
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Drama, drama film
The film follows the Bandini family as they struggle through hard times in 1920s Colorado. Unemployed and broke, Svevo Bandini (Joe Mantegna) tries to come up with the money his family needs to make it through the winter, while putting up …
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documentary film
Morning Light is a documentary that follows the youngest crew (by average age) to compete in the Transpac. All crew members were between 18 and 23 at the time. The film follows the formation of the Morning Light sailing team, their six mon…
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Drama, Sport, boxing film, drama film
Vic Bealer, a young boxer from a small town in Texas known by his ring name "The Bomber," seems to be on his way to big things, remaining undefeated as an amateur with a possibility of making the U.S. Olympic boxing team. Without any expla…
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Phil's wife Kim, the den mother of the local Cub Scout pack, gives a pinewood derby kit to each of the Cub Scouts. Although the boys are supposed to make their own cars from the kits, with appropriate adult supervision, the four dads obses…
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sport film
The rural New South Wales town of Bodgy Creek is struggling: with drought, job scarcity (after the timber mill was shut down), and with racism. The film focuses on the Roosters (a local football team) which is in financial strife. The team…
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biographical film, drama film, sport film
Thrown together just five weeks before the final of the 1948 London Olympics, Bert Bushnell and Dickie Burnell row to victory in the double sculls.
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drama film
Turn the River stars Famke Janssen as Kailey Sullivan, a woman rough around the edges and schooled in hard knocks. Divorced from her son's father and without visitation rights, she and her son write letters to each other and meet surreptit…
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, drama film
In Seoul, 1988, Greg Louganis hits the diving board while plunging towards the water, cutting his head open. Splashing into the water, Greg begins to have flashbacks: as a young kid being ridiculed by neighborhood bullies; his adoptive fat…
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Four childhood friends, Will, Brian, Corey, and Matt, have had a dream since they were kids to surf, skate, and snowboard across California. After graduating from junior college, they decide to make the trip, but have to save money first. …
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Christmas film, Romance Film, comedy film, drama film, romance film, sport film
Claire Benson is a figure skater who is broken on the inside and out. Driven to the brink by her coach, she is forced to spend the weeks leading up to Christmas in the picturesque mountain regions of Western Canada at a sports rehabilitati…
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Action, Drama, action film, boxing film
Strength and Honour tells the story of an Irish-American boxer, Sean Kelleher (Michael Madsen), who accidentally kills his friend in the ring and promises his wife that he will never box again. However, years later, when he discovers that …
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Drama, Sport, boxing film, teen film
In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, tries to get the young people off the street and into doin…
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documentary film
Kobe Doin’ Work is an 84-minute exploration of Kobe Bryant's work ethic, his in game mentality, and the bluntness that made Bryant a great competitor. Lee uses multiple cameras, sound from the in-game broadcast, the Staples Center, a micro…
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documentary film, sport film
Komödie, sport film
Norman Hackett is employed in a jeweller's workshop and is innocently preoccupied with dreaming of meeting the window dresser in the shop across the street from his workplace. He wants to purchase a diamond pendant for her and, after persu…
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Drama, Sport, boxing film
sport film
The Torquay Tigers are a successful team playing in the Bellarine Football League. Their coach Charlie "Chang" Hyde has guided the team into their first Grand Final in seven years. There is talk that the team's best three players, Dunn, Mo…
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sport film
Cathy Yarrow arrives in Parry Sound, Ontario with her mother and sister from Toronto following the separation of her parents. As the town has no team for girls, she attends tryouts for the local boys' hockey team, and wins a spot as one of…
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sport film