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biographical film, drama film
In Fort Worth, Texas, young Ben Hogan works as a golf caddy and dreams of becoming a professional golfer. As an adult, Hogan marries childhood sweetheart Valerie Fox and joins the pro golfers' tour. Fellow pro Chuck Williams befriends Hoga…
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Documentation, Sport, documentary film
Action, Drama, Komödie, action film, exploitation film, sport film
Karen Walker wants more action out of life and quits her job at the cannery to become a skater in the roller derby. She encounters friction from the other skaters—especially Mickey, the current star of the team. Karen proves herself a feis…
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Action, Auto Racing, action film, thriller film
Johnny Wayne is an ex-racer who serves 5 years in prison after crippling a young boy during an illegal street race in Los Angeles. Wayne, having been traumatised by the events, vows to never race again, and is soon released as a reformed c…
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Drama, Sport
Cory is a foster child who has come and gone from a series of foster homes and foster parents. He is sent to Dan and Michelle who wish to adopt him, but Cory is warned that he'll go to a home for delinquents if he has any more problems wit…
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sport film
Jackie Robinson "J.R." Cooper is a kid who loves baseball, and also the son of a former major leaguer now down on his luck (and now a vendor working the stands at games). J.R. parlays his baseball knowledge into becoming manager of the San…
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American football film, Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, drama film
Elroy Hirsch's life is told from his days in a school in Wisconsin and then at the University of Wisconsin where he already excelled in sports. After military service, Elroy becomes a professional athlete and earns the nickname of Crazyleg…
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Drama, drama film
Phil, James, George, and Tom meet 20 years after their championship high school game at a special reunion at their high school. Afterwards, they decide to visit the home of their old coach. While at first it seems they are all having a few…
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Action, action film, martial arts film, spy film
A world's new kung-fu hero is out to stop drug dealers, gangs and help save the world from an evil con .
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drama film
Chicago college student Max Hanson (Jackson) is a talented artist and hockey player. Though more interested in the latter, he is under pressure from his mother, Sophie (Williams) to pursue a career in art, influenced by the fact that she p…
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drama film, sport film
sport film
Bennett's War is about a young soldier, Marshall Bennett (Michael Roark), who is in 75th Ranger Regiment during the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) in Army Motorcycle Unit. He survives an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion while in…
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Sport, Tragic Comedy Film, association football film, comedy drama
Joe Lawson is the chairman of a relegation zone English football club and he makes makes an illegal approach to a rising star of a rival club. The manager of the rival club makes an accusation which is picked up by the press. When Lawson i…
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Martial-Arts, action film, martial arts film
The film opens with kickboxer Jake Raye fighting Mickey Sheehan for the Lightweight Championship. Jake kicks Mickey in the throat, instantly killing him. Jake decides to give up kickboxing.
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Drama, Sport, boxing film, drama film
Drama, Sport, drama film
Race-car driver Gino Borgesa meets a ballerina, Nicole Laurent, whose pet poodle causes a crash at the track. She persuades an ex-lover to give Gino money for a new car. They begin a romance, although Gino warns her that his racing comes f…
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Action, Sport
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
O'Donovan breaks into a safe in a factory in Florence, Italy, late at night. That triggers a burglar alarm, and he shoots the night watchman and at least one policeman; his gunfire also starts a fire that consumes the factory. He goes to F…
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Drama, Sport, drama film, teen film
Clay Driscoll, a young coach from Louisiana with dreams of being the head coach of a successful boys' basketball team, is hired by an Oklahoma superintendent to coach basketball. Driscoll immediately finds himself in conflict with the head…
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documentary film
The film was written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Ira Berkow, and is narrated by actor Dustin Hoffman. It was directed by Peter Miller, a documentary filmmaker known for his previous films, A Class Apart, Sacco and Vanzetti and The Internation…
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Drama, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film
The movie surrounds the true story of teenage football talent Martin Bengtsson's (Erik Enge) time as a 16-year-old professional footballer at the Italian club Inter Milan.
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Documentation, documentary film, sport film
sport film
George Shuttleworth is a chimney sweep from Wigan who dreams of winning the Isle of Man TT. Unfortunately, George's attempts to secure a factory ride with the Rainbow Motorcycle Company are unsuccessful and consequently he resorts to enter…
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Annie Garrett (Julie Benz) is a young woman who moves with her slacker husband Ross and their seven-year-old daughter Taylor (Gage Golightly) from Colorado to a ranch in northern California. After he fails to land a job as promised, Ross a…
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