20 best movies like Pride (2007)


List of the best movies like Pride (2007): 4 Minute Mile, The Power of One, Gracie, Hurricane Season, From the Rough, The Express, The Hammer, Resurrecting the Champ, The Blind Side, Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story.

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Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama, sport
CountryUSA

A teenager overcomes odds to run a 4-minute mile race.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, sport
CountryAustralia, France, USA
Duration02:07

PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only friend, a kindly world-wise prisoner, Geel Piet. Geel teaches him how to box with the motto “fight with your fists and lead with your heart”. As he grows to manhood, PK uses these words to take on the system and the injustices he sees around him - and finds that one person really can make a difference.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama, biography, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

This is the story of a teenager named Gracie Bowen, who lives in South Orange, New Jersey, is crazy about soccer, as are her three brothers and former soccer star father. Although Gracie wants to join her brothers and father in the nightly practices, she is discouraged by everyone except her elder brother, Johnny. Her father does not believe that girls should play soccer and tells her that she is neither tough enough nor talented enough to play with the boys team. Undeterred, Gracie finds reserves of strength she never knew existed, and persists in changing everyone's beliefs in what she is capable of, including her own. She faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer. But as the beautiful and strong person that she has always been but she also brings her family together in the face of their own tragedy.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach Al Collins(Forest Whitaker), gathers other players from hard-hit schools and builds a team actually worthy enough to go to the state playoffs. A very honest look at what can be done with the right people having the desire and fortitude to pick up and

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

The coach of a women's swim team parlays her success into an opportunity to build her school's men's golf team.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, biography, sport
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration02:10

Based on the incredible true story, The Express follows the inspirational life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, biography, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

A coming of age drama following the life of Matt Hamill, the first deaf wrestler to win a National Collegiate Wrestling Championship.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, biography, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, biography, sport
CountryUSA
Duration02:09

    Oversized African-American, Michael Oher, the teen from across the tracks and a broken home, has nowhere to sleep at age 16. Taken in by an affluent Memphis couple, Michael embarks on a remarkable rise to play for the NFL.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, biography, history, sport
    CountryTaiwan

    A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    The story of a New York pro baseball team and two of its players. Henry Wiggen is the star pitcher and Bruce Pearson is the normal, everyday catcher who is far from the star player on the team and friend to all of his teammates. During the off-season, Bruce learns that he is terminally ill, and Henry, his only true friend, is determined to be the one person there for him during his last season with the club. Throughout the course of the season, Henry and his teammates attempt to deal with Bruce's impending illness, all the while attempting to make his last year a memorable one.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, biography, sport
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration01:54

    A young man aspiring for recognition of his talents battles against his estranged father's sentiment towards him as the father deals with his own demons.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryCzech Republic, Slovakia, Germany
    Duration01:40

    In the 1980s, Anna, a Czech sprinter, starts training for the Olympics. After she collapses during training, she learns she is being given steroids and decides to stop using them until her mother helps the coaches give them to her.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, family, biography, history, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

      Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin - manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama, biography, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:50

        A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA

        Life of a King is the true story of one man's mission to give inner city kids of Washington DC something he never had - a future. After being incarcerated for eighteen years, Eugene Brown established the Big Chair Chess Club to get kids off the streets and working towards lives they never believed they were capable of. This is his inspirational story.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genredrama, sport
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:02

        A young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genredrama, biography, sport
        CountryCanada
        Duration02:04

        In the late 1930s, a young machinist named Maurice Richard distinguished himself as a ice hockey player of preternatural talent. Although that was enough to get him into the Montreal Canadiens, his frequent injuries cost him the confidence of his team and the fans. In the face of these doubts, Richard eventually shows the kind of aggressive and skillful play that would make him one of the greatest players of all time as "The Rocket." However for all his success, Richard and his fellow French Canadians face constant discrimination in a league dominated by the English speaking. Although a man of few words, Richard begins to speak his own mind about the injustice which creates a organizational conflict that would culminate in his infamous 1955 season suspension that sparks an ethnic riot in protest. In the face of these challenges, Richard must decide who exactly is he playing for.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genredrama, sport
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:11

        When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genredrama, biography, sport
        CountryCanada
        Duration01:40

        Ned Hanlan was Canada's most successful sculling champion at the turn of the 20th century. This dramatization of his life begins in his youth, when the wild young man is informally adopted by a gambler who promotes Ned on the sculling circuit, betting on the boy's rowing skills solely to make money off him. Later, a ruthless businessman named Knox takes over Ned's career, but when Ned realizes how dishonest Knox is, he finds another manager. Walter is an inventor and the first honest man Ned has dealt with in his career and, under Walter's guidance, Ned rises to great success in the sculling world.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genredrama, family, sport
        CountryVenezuela
        Duration01:37

        Two brothers fight to escape a violent and poor neighborhood in Caracas by playing soccer. Daniel wishes to play professionally while Julio supports the family with dirty money. The opportunity of a lifetime comes when a talent scout invites them to the Caracas Football Club. The boys' mother dies in a shootout forcing each brother to decide what it is more important to them:family, revenge, or achieving their dreams.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genredrama, biography, sport
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:58

        In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genredrama, military, biography, sport
        CountryGermany, USA
        Duration01:49

        True story of boxers Joe Louis and Max Schmeling and their enduring friendship.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genredrama, sport
        CountrySouth Korea
        Duration01:50

        A deadbeat teacher helps an angry, aimless teenager find direction in life during his final year of high school.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genredrama, documentary, biography, sport
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:48

        Beyond the Mat is a 1999 professional wrestling documentary, directed by Barry W. Blaustein. The movie focuses on the lives of professional wrestlers outside of the ring, especially Mick Foley, Terry Funk, and Jake Roberts. The film heavily focuses on the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), often criticizing it and its chairman Vince McMahon. It also follows Extreme Championship Wrestling, it's rise in popularity, and many other independent wrestlers and organisations.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA
        Duration02:03

          The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genremelodrama, drama, military, history, sport
          CountryMacedonia, Czech Republic, USA
          Duration01:53

          Spitz is the German-Jewish coach of the football team Macedonia during World War II. Under his leadership, the team fights to become the champion of Bulgaria's National Football League

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genredrama, family, biography, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:55

          A young coach turns a losing high school football program around to go undefeated for 12 consecutive seasons.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genremelodrama, drama, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:36

          Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system. As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a completely sterile environment. His room is completely hermetically sealed against bacteria and virus, his food is specially prepared, and his only human contact comes in the form of gloved hands. The movie follows his life into a teenager.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genredrama, biography, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:54

          Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems. His grades were a little low, his athletic skills were poor, and he was only half the size of the other players. But he had the drive and the spirit of 5 people and has set his sights upon joining the team.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genredrama, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:45

          A native-American lacrosse team makes its way through a prep school league tournament.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genredrama, biography, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:27

          The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryUSA, Republic of Ireland
          Duration02:14

          Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the IRA, and when he does find money, he spends the money on drink.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genredrama, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:01

          The more you love, the harder you fight.The world looks at Billy Flynn and sees a has-been who seemingly never was, an ex-boxing champion slammed to the mat years ago by booze and gambling. But Billy's son TJ sees what the world doesn't. He knows his flawed but loving father is, was and always will be The Champ.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genredrama, biography, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:49

          High school football coach, Harold Jones befriends Radio, a mentally-challenged man who becomes a student at T.L. Hanna High School in Anderson, South Carolina. Their friendship extends over several decades, where Radio transforms from a shy, tormented man into an inspiration to his community.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genredrama, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:40

          Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genredrama, crime, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:05

          Teenagers at a juvenile detention center, under the leadership of their counselor, gain self-esteem by playing football together.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genredrama, biography, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:55

          A chronicle of Babe Ruth's phenomenal story--from his hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage, to his meteoric rise to baseball superstardom and his poignant retirement from the game. His amazing career included seven American League pennants, four World Series championships, two tempestuous marriages and a wild lifestyle that earned him numerous suspensions.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genremelodrama, drama, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:50

          A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured to show that he can fight if challenged during his stay in a Canadian minor hockey town. His on-ice activities are complicated by his relationship with the coach's daughter.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genredrama, history, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:59

          In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein (Jon Hamm) dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great pitcher from a pool of cricket players in India. He soon discovers two young men who can throw a fastball but know nothing about the game of baseball. Or America. It’s an incredible and touching journey that will change them all — especially JB, who learns valuable lessons about teamwork, commitment and family.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA

          In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genredrama, sport
          CountryGermany, USA
          Duration01:58

          A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town's dormant social problems begin to flare up. It is left to the inspiring abilities of new coach Gary Gaines to instill in the other team members -- and, by proxy, the town itself -- a sense of self-respect and honor.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genredrama, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:31

          A BMX racer, who lives in a small town with his mother and sister, is faced with a tough decision, qualify for Helltrack or take his SATs in order to attend college.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genredrama, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:40

          Talent can only get you so far. For golfer Luke Chisholm, that turns out to be Utopia, Texas -- where he's left stranded after blowing his pro debut.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genredrama, sport
          CountryUSA

          Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides that wrestling boys is the only way back to her estranged father.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genredrama, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration03:03

          The dramatic and inspirational story of a young pitcher who becomes the first woman to play Major League Baseball.

          Markimdb: 4.7
          Genredrama, biography, sport
          CountryUSA

          A combination "before the rage" and "after the rage" of world middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta's tumultuous life and times.

          Markimdb: 8
          Genredrama
          CountryIndia, USA, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong
          Duration02:35

            Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his condition and his race.




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