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American football film, Drama, Sport, drama film
Steve Novak, a Polish-American immigrant from a small New Jersey mill town, attends Jackson University in Virginia to play football. He becomes a star player as a freshman but hears stories of teammates receiving money for their play. Stev…
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drama film
Gallo Morales (Olmos) returns home after being imprisoned for seven years for murdering a man over a cockfight. His family welcomes him back with mixed feelings. While his daughter Angela (Lassez) is eager to have him back, his son Hector …
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Drama, Sport
A convicted forger escapes prison and takes a job as a high schools teacher and coach.
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documentary film, sport film
Greg LeMond in 1986 became the first non-European professional cyclist to win the Tour de France. He then recovered from a near-fatal shooting accident during an off-season hunting trip to win the 1989 Tour de France in Paris, on the Champ…
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Drama, Sport
A former All-American basketball player lands a job as assistant coach for a three-time championship girls' high school basketball team. After the head coach has a heart attack, she takes over and clashes with several parents who push thei…
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sport film
documentary film, sport film
The film follows three climbers as they do the 3000-feet (900 m) vertical ascent of The Nose, the classic first big-wall climb on El Capitan. A fourth climber follows the group and films their ascent but is never seen in the movie. The cli…
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Senior high school football star Cameron is traumatized when his best friend is killed in a car accident that he feels responsible for. When Cam learns that his best friend (a track star) was working on breaking the sub-four minute mile, h…
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Romance Film, Sport
Dallas and Drayton are still happily together and both attending their dream colleges in California. Problems arise, however, when their busy schedules, new faces and being on the opposite side of the same city cause more issues than they …
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Action, Drama, Motor-Bike Film, Sport, action film
Dirt track racer Cody Gifford along with his best friend and crew chief Chris Washburn, and girlfriend Jenny Eastman, have built a 500cc superbike in their garage. They take it to the American qualifiers, Despite his bike falling over, he …
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Drama, Sport, drama film
sport film
Macarthy is a country football player who is kidnapped by the South Melbourne Football Club and made a star player in the city. The Club Chairman, Colonel Ball-Miller, gives Macarthy a job in one of his companies and makes him attend night…
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Documentation, Sport, boxing film, documentary film
sport film
LGBTQ-related film, boxing film, drama film, romance film
Matt (Rose) is a London music promoter who wants to one day own his own club. His flatmate is Paula (Behr), a pop singer whose music he helps promote. While accompanying her on a personal appearance at a gay club in Blackpool, Matt meets C…
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Romantic Drama, Satire, Sport, comedy film
documentary film, sport film
Professional cyclist Jacques “Jock” Boyer moves to Rwanda in 2006 to help a group of struggling genocide survivors working to form a national cycling team. The team is composed of children left orphaned and traumatized by the genocide a de…
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sport film
Drama, Sport, drama film
Sarah Wurble's husband Willy is the larceny-inclined manager of an illiterate, and very religious boxer from Tennessee named Danny. Gifted with a powerful punch and a nickname that gives the film its title, Danny mistakenly believes he kil…
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Action, LGBTQ-related film, Sport, boxing film, crime film, thriller film
Michael Dublin (Chad Ortis) is a shyster specialised in illegal betting. One night during an illegal car race he gets beaten up by a participant whose car he's previously sabotaged. When his opponents are about to stash him away, a feisty …
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sport film
Action, Drama, Sport, children's film
Tai Po and Vernon are shown to have a common pastime of playing soccer. Later, Tai Po enters a Youth Soccer Competition in a tryout, but gets hurt with his leg bleeding. Since that event, Tai Po appears to shun matches of soccer on the rad…
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drama film
Jenna is a teenaged competitive skater who has been coached by her overprotective, high-strung, gun-obsessed mother Celia. When she quits competing and decides to go to college in Vancouver, her mother becomes very upset and tries to preve…
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