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Documentation, Sport, association football film, documentary film
The film chronicles the take over of the nearly bankrupt club in 2007 by a consortium of billionaires and their effort to promote the team to the Premier League by 2011. The consortium consisted of Bernie Ecclestone, Flavio Briatore and Al…
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drama film
A man named Hob Danvers comes to a Tucson, Arizona rodeo with Sylvia Lorgan in tow. Hob has been separated from wife Ruth for two years, and doesn't realize she intends to be at the rodeo. He meets up with old friends Lew and Meg Hutchins …
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American football film, Komödie, Sport
When a small town votes to disband the local football team, the Possums, a radio announcer begins announcing imaginary radio games which the Possums win causing the real state champs to challenge the Possums to a game.
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drama film
The film focuses on the basketball team of an Episcopalian all-girl high school, where they try to make a name, despite only a little funding. The team's new female coach soon realizes she will have to work very hard if she wants the team …
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Action, thriller film
For four young people; Katie, Mike, Eric, Nicole; speed is a way of life. But the four soon come to realize that living life in the fast lane carries a very high price. On the streets debts are not settled with cash, they are settled in bl…
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Documentation, documentary film, sport film
The film focuses on film star Steve McQueen's efforts to take control of his career. After the success of Bullitt and The Thomas Crown Affair, McQueen sought to pursue his dream of creating a film about his passion: race-car driving. The r…
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Auto Racing, Motor-Bike Film, biographical film, drama film, sport film
The film begins with Barry having a bad crash during the 1982 British Grand Prix. Suzuki rider Anton Mang crashes and Barry crashes into his bike. Barry is then hit by Honda rider Takazumi Katayama.
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Documentation, Sport, documentary film
Sport, children's film, comedy drama
The plot is about the dog from the first film who has been reclaimed by his real owners and is taken to Europe to play in the championship, which he eventually wins.
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drama film, martial arts film
The embattled mixed martial arts expert, Eddie Castillo, is released from jail after swearing to never enter the pit fighting ring again. However, after his brother is killed in the ring by a vicious new fighter, Eddie goes on a quest for …
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drama film
A troubled teenaged fan is helped by his favorite baseball team, the Cleveland Indians. The kid attracts the attention of sportscaster Mike Jackson alongside Bill Veeck and Hank Greenberg, who spot him on the field imitating a baseball gam…
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Documentation, Sport, documentary film
sport film
With his family experiencing difficulties following his father's motocross-related death, teenager Danny Stewart is forbidden from participating in the sport by his mother. Ignoring his mother's wishes, Danny and a retired motorbike mechan…
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documentary film, sport film
The film provides an insight into an incident at the 1968 Summer Olympics which saw two United States athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, give the black power salute from the victory dais after the 200 metres final. The film focuses on…
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American football film, action film, crime film
Red Grange is thrown off the Clay College football team in disgrace when his friend, Buddy Courtland, takes a bribe to throw the big game and Red attacks him in anger. Red then proceeds to investigate and hunt down the head of the gambling…
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Drama, Komödie, Sport, comedy film
Wayne Hopkins is a high school diver afraid of heights; he aspires to make the Olympic team but has nightmares about the high diving platforms of his sport, and as a result freezes up constantly. Causing more complications in his life are …
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Crime, Mysterie, crime film, mystery film
When a prominent racehorse owner winds up dead-allegedly kicked to death by his prized stallion, Charlie Chan is called in to investigate. But when the indomitable detective discovers evidence of foul play, he's soon hot on the hooves of a…
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sport film
The film deals with Dawn Fraser's rise to fame as a champion Olympic swimmer, her anti-authoritarian clashes with Australian Swimming officials, her triumphs, marriage and eventual divorce.
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documentary film, sport film
The film follow's Adams' life through her upbringing in Tonga and South Auckland and her professional sporting career, and follows Adams as she prepared for her fifth Olympic games appearance at the 2020 Summer Olympics. The film also addr…
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sport film
crime film, sport film
Major Bright and Captain Early are intelligence officers in the British army of occupation in post-World War 2 Germany. They are sent home on leave, but fail to notice that their new batman is actually wanted war criminal Otto Fisch. He va…
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coming-of-age film, sport film, teen film
It is a movie about three teen skaters, played by young Australian actors Richard Wilson, Sean Kennedy and Ho Thi Lu. Their characters Poker, Spasm and Blue Flame, are trying to escape the law, their school, their parents, their demons and…
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drama film, sport film
When Kevin (Marshall Allman) looks for a way to escape his back-breaking summer job, he enlists in the kitchen at an extreme summer camp with the hopes of spending his breaks on the half-pipe. But Kevin gets more than he bargained for when…
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Documentation, Sport, biographical film, boxing film, documentary film