Facing the Giants

Facing the Giants 2006

7.52

A losing coach with an underdog football team faces their giants of fear and failure on and off the field to surprising results.

2006

The Replacements

The Replacements 2000

6.64

Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty dusts off his secret dossier of ex-players who never got a chance (or screwed up the one they were given) and knits together a bad-dream team of guys who just may give the Sentinels their title shot.

2000

Next Goal Wins

Next Goal Wins 2023

6.43

Dutch coach Thomas Rongen attempts the nearly impossible task of turning the American Samoa soccer team from perennial losers into winners.

2023

McFarland, USA

McFarland, USA 2015

7.45

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

2015

Chak De! India

Chak De! India 2007

7.18

A team of rag-tag girls with their own agenda form Team India competing for international fame in field hockey. Their coach, the ex-men's Indian National team captain, returns from a life of shame after being unjustly accused of match fixing in his last match. Can he give the girls the motivation required to win, while dealing with the shadows of his own past?

2007

Goal!

Goal! 2005

6.75

Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that--a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United.

2005

Youngblood

Youngblood 1986

6.10

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.

1986

All the Right Moves

All the Right Moves 1983

5.75

Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could crush the player's dreams.

1983

The Bad News Bears

The Bad News Bears 1976

6.90

An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.

1976

Hoosiers

Hoosiers 1986

7.10

Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to quit and focus on his long-neglected studies, Dale struggles to develop a winning team in the face of community criticism for his temper and his unconventional choice of assistant coach: Shooter, a notorious alcoholic.

1986

Blackbeard's Ghost

Blackbeard's Ghost 1968

6.70

The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker gets caught in the middle of the squabble after evoking Blackbeard's ghost.

1968

Forever Strong

Forever Strong 2008

7.12

Rick Penning lives life just like he plays rugby; fast, hard-hitting and intense. When life on the edge lands him in jail, prison ward Marcus Tate offers him a chance to get back in the game by playing for his rival, Highland Rugby. Reluctantly Rick joins the team where he must adopt the grueling training schedule that Coach Gelwix enforces, or finish out the season behind bars.

2008

Friday Night Lights

Friday Night Lights 2004

6.90

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.

2004

Stick It

Stick It 2006

6.80

Haley is a naturally gifted athlete but, with her social behavior, the teen seems intent on squandering her abilities. After a final brush with the law, a judge sentences her to an elite gymnastics academy run by a legendary, hard-nosed coach. Once there, Haley's rebellious attitude wins her both friends and enemies.

2006

Wildcats

Wildcats 1986

6.26

Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite snickers from fellow staff members and her former husband.

1986

Vision Quest

Vision Quest 1985

6.40

After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain sets out on a mission to drop weight and challenge the area's undefeated champion, which creates problems with his teammates and health. Matters are complicated further when Louden's father takes in an attractive female drifter who's on her way to San Francisco.

1985

Win Win

Win Win 2011

6.83

When down-on-his-luck part-time high school wrestling coach Mike agrees to become legal guardian to an elderly man, his ward's troubled grandson turns out to be a star grappler, sparking dreams of a big win -- until the boy's mother retrieves him.

2011

Carry On Abroad

Carry On Abroad 1972

6.40

A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get there, they find the Hotel still hasn't been finished being built, and the weather is awful. And there is something strange about the staff—they all look very similar. To top it all off, the weather seems to be having an adverse affect on the Hotel's foundations.

1972

Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker 1981

6.77

Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death to anyone who comes between her and her obsession. But the investigating detective is convinced that Billy is the real killer - and determined to prove it. Madness and fanaticism work together to drag all concerned into a terrifying vortex of blood-letting that adds a nightmarish twist to the classic Oedipus story.

1981

The Comebacks

The Comebacks 2007

4.90

Out-of-luck coach Lambeau Fields takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process, this life-long loser discovers that he is a winner after all by redeeming himself, saving his relationship with his family and friends, and finding that there is indeed, no "I" in "team"!

2007

Like Flowers in Sand

Like Flowers in Sand 2023

7.32

Struggling to find success, a former wrestling prodigy finds himself ready to quit until he reencounters an old friend who reignites his passion.

2023

Mental Coach Jegal

Mental Coach Jegal 2022

5.70

Je Gal-gil causes an unprecedented scandal after he loses a match that he almost won due to the referee’s biased call and injures his leg. Even though permanently expelled from the national team as a player, he overcomes the trauma and comes back as a sports psychology counselor also called a mental healthcare coach. Together with the retired masters, Gal-gil works to help athletes who are going through a hard time as he did in the past.

2022

Against the Grain

Against the Grain 1993

3.00

Insurance salesman Ed Clemons has just taken on the task of coaching the slumping high school football team of the small, but football-crazy town of Sumpter, Texas. He is given just one season to turn the fumbling teens around, and he throws himself into the job wholeheartedly. Though his methods ruffle the feathers of the quiet little town, he manages to make some real progress with the players. The show was inspired by Buzz Bissinger's book Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream.

1993

Saikyou Kamizmode!

Saikyou Kamizmode! 2020

1

Saikyo Kamizmode! (最響カミズモード) is a Japanese trading card game developed by Data Cardass themed through music, taiko and sumo. An anime series produced by Bandai Namco Pictures was announced on August 10, 2020 where it first premiered as an ONA on Bandai Namco's Youtube channel on September 28, 2020 before its actual TV premiere on Tokyo MX on October 9, 2020.

2020

Ro-Kyu-Bu!

Ro-Kyu-Bu! 2011

4.90

When high schooler Subaru's basketball team is disbanded for a year, his aunt talks him into coaching an elementary school girls' team.

2011

Gekokujô Kyuji

Gekokujô Kyuji 2023

8.00

Based on a true story depicted in the non-fiction book “Gekokujou Kyuuji Mie Kenritsu Hakusan Koukou Koushien Made no Miracle.” The story follows Nagumo Shuuji, a social studies teacher at Mie Prefecture’s Etsuzan Senior High School, who was a former baseball player up until university when he quit after sustaining an injury. Thereafter, he worked as a sports trainer but returned to university at 32 years old in order to pursue his dream of becoming a teacher. However, his peaceful daily life goes through a change after he’s appointed to be the advisor of his school’s baseball club that is on the verge of abolition.

2023

The Playbook

The Playbook 2020

6.60

Coaches with championship résumés share their personal rules for success in sports and life in this reflective and inspiring documentary series.

2020

The Voice Teens

The Voice Teens 2017

6.00

The biggest singing-reality show in the country and in the whole world is back! A first in Asia, The Voice Teens, aims to find the freshest young breed of teen artists ages 13 to 17 years old.

2017

The Hockey Girls

The Hockey Girls 2019

6.70

The passionate members of a girls' roller hockey team chase down victories in the rink while striving to make time for school, family and romance.

2019

Home Ground

Home Ground 2018

7.20

When a newly promoted football club lose their trainer just before the start of the league season, a female, Helena Mikkelsen, gets the historic chance to coach the team, even before an ambitious retired professional.

2018

Little Sparks

Little Sparks 2015

8.00

A dysfunctional peewee football team grows more inept when a new coach joins them with a plethora of brand-new bad ideas.

2015

Sober Coach

Sober Coach 2019

1

Desperate for quick cash, Caleb gets hired on as a sober companion to a retired pop star. Two worlds collide in this dark comedy about recovery, relapse and the twilight zone of disillusionment.

2019